Imperial Power and Popular Politics : Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950 (Paperback)

1. Introduction; 2. Industrialization in India before 1947: conventional approaches and alternative perspectives; 3. Workers, trade unions and the state in colonial India; 4. Workers' politics and the mill districts of Bombay between the wars; 5. Workers, violence and the colonial state: representation, repression and resistance; 6. Police and public order in Bombay, 1880?1947; 7. Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896?1914; 8. Indian nationalism, 1914?47: Gandhian rhetoric, the Congress and the working classes; 9. South Asia and world capitalism: towards a social history of labour; Bibliography; Index.