This collection of eight essays brings together Bipan Chandra’s finest writings on colonialism and nationalism in India, spanning two decades. While critically examining the colonial school of analysis (primarily developed by colonial administrators), the author in these essays lucidly puts forth his understanding of the core elements of colonialism: the complex integration of the colony with the world capitalist system, in a subordinate position; a distinct historical stage which modernized colonial societies wihout initiating independent economic development; a system which displayed three distinct phases, each characterized by a unique pattern of domination and surplus extraction; a structure where the colonial state subordinated all the economic and social classes of the colony, while it served the interests of the metropolitan bourgeoisie.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bipan Chandra
Bipan Chandra born and brought up in kangra, Himachal Pradesh, studied at Forman Christian College, Lahore, and Stanford University, U.S.A. He is at present Professor Emeritus at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and National research professor. He has been UGC National Lecturer, a Visiting professor at El Colegio de Mexico, member of the university Grants Commission and president of the Indian History Congress. His other Publications include The Rise and growth of economic nationalism in India, nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India, Modern India, Communalism in Modern India, Ideology and Politics in Modern India, essays on Contemporary India, Essays on Indian nationalism, Epic Struggle, essays on Colonialism and In the name of democracy: J P Movement and the Emergency. He has edited Indian left: critical Appraisals and Ranade's economic Writings and co-authored freedom Struggle, India's Struggle for Independence and Indian After Independence 1947-2000.
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