Original documents are of prime importance for understanding history, particularly of the trade union movement right from its incipient stages, when the British created a labour force long before it even thought of industrializing India. Realizing the important of providing scattered documents for scholars, the ICHR published in 24 volumes in the series on Labour Movements in India –Documents with A.R. Desai as the General Editor. This volume is a part of 2 volumes in the 1937-1939 series, when the movement grew and gathered strength, with the advent of industrialization. The documents advent of industrialization. The documents also indicate their significance in the freedom movement in India and bring forth how it became a part of the international labour movement.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kamala Ganesh
Kamala Ganesh is Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, Mumbai. Her areas of interest include gender studies, caste and kinship, and cultural studies. Professor Ganesh has earlier taught Sociology at St Xavier’s College and SNDT Women’s University, both in Mumbai. She was also Senior Fellow of the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), 1992-94, and Secretary of the Commission on Women, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (1988-93). She has been involved in research work for the ICSSR and for UNESCO’s Population and Human Settlements Division. A member of the managing committee of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Kamala Ganesh has contributed numerous papers to journals and edited volumes, besides being the author of Boundary Walls: Caste and Women in a Tamil Community (1993) and the co-editor of Negotiation and Social Space: A Gendered Analysis of Marriage and Kinship Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (Sage, 1998).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Manorama Savur
Manorama Savur’s initial training was in natural sciences and later in social sciences. She was awarded her Ph. D. in 1962. As a Professor of sociology for over twenty years, she taught sociology of development and rural sociology at the university of Bombay. In early 1980s her interest shifted to forests and the forest question. The present study is her post retirement project involving six years of research and extensive field work. She has three books and over thirty papers to her credit.
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