This article is an attempt to analyse the nature of "capitalist' enterprise in colonial India. The focus is on the nature of the labour processes used within the enterprises, the means of control...
Review of Political Economy
The paper argues in what sense we can trace the frpntiers of the "Prison Notebooks" in its abandonment of 'materialist' reductionism, in the logical and historical implications of the passive...
The theme of this note is bourgeois hegemony in contemporary third world countries. The focus is on one particular expression of bourgeois ideology, namely, the concept of economic development. In...
This paper is intended as a critique and a parallel construction ofGramsci's concepts of hegemony and counter- hegemony. It restructures some of Gramsci's major theoretical categories in the light...
Sudhir Sen The lamentation over 'development under siege' which fills the latest report of the Committee for Development Planning of the United Nations cannot but evoke mixed feelings. The economic...
This note is a comment on the previous paper by Ajit Chaudhuri and considers the implications of Chaudhuri's demonstration that it is impossible simply to extend the 'orthodox' variety of Marxism to...
This paper is largely a reconstruction cfGramsci's attempts towards an understanding of subaltern consciousness in hegemony processes. In Section I, views on common sense for 'ordinary' folk's sense...
In this paper the author attempts to reconstruct and present some of the major writings of Antonio Gramsci as related to the analysis of class consciousness. The focus is on the methodological...
Politics in India Today D Miller The question of religion in India and its relation to secularism and politics has essentially been viewed within the dominant western mould. In this paper an attempt...
Asok Sen Commercialisation of agriculture is an inevitable and essential feature of the emergence and consolidation of capitalism. Yet, such process is imbricated with dualities and regional...
The Awami National Party (ANP), Pakistan's hading anti- imperialist party, will celebrate its first anniversary on July 26 with a convention and, for the first time, elections to choose its...
in Bombay, 1911-47 Radha Kumar By the first decade of this century Bombay's working class population was already living in overcrowded ill- ventilated chawls with poor sanitation and water supply...
History of economic thought has been marked by both continuity and change. Insofar as economics as a discipline is not concerned with an undifferentiated and unhistorical reality, change is to be...
This article is a preliminary attempt at identifying some of the linkages between (a) different demographic processes and (b) between demographic and economic phenomena in rural Malabar during the...
While the idea of planning emerged as central to Indian nationalist economic thought only after the election of 1937, economic planning was a known concept to Indian thinkers in early twentieth...
