Skip to main content
Kent Academic Repository

Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on India's Working Classes

Sanchez, Andrew, Strümpell, Christian (2014) Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on India's Working Classes. Modern Asian Studies, 48 (05). pp. 1233-1241. ISSN 0026-749X. (doi:10.1017/S0026749X14000018) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:70057)

The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided.
Official URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X14000018

Abstract

With reference to original ethnographic and historical research on India, the papers collected in this forum suggest conceptual refinements that might re-centre the study of class in regional scholarship. Through discussions of class politics in industrial, construction and agricultural contexts, the authors interrogate the conceptual oppositions between stably employed fordist labour forces and the ‘working poor’ that have often constrained ethnographic and historical analyses of India's working classes. Inspired by Marxist historiography, this forum engages with the historically contingent emergence of Indian working classes through different types of labour, gender and ethnic struggles, and considers the complex political boundaries that are produced by such processes.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1017/S0026749X14000018
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation
Depositing User: Alexandra Leduc-Pagel
Date Deposited: 13 Nov 2018 09:40 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 11:02 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/70057 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

  • Depositors only (login required):

Total unique views for this document in KAR since July 2020. For more details click on the image.