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M. N. Roy - Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (Paperback)
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M. N. Roy - Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (Paperback)
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This is a work of South Asian intellectual history written from a
transnational perspective and based on the life and work of M.N.
Roy, one of India's most formidable Marxist intellectuals. Swadeshi
revolutionary, co-founder of the Mexican Communist Party, member of
the Communist International Presidium, and a major force in the
rise of Indian communism, M.N. Roy was a colonial cosmopolitan icon
of the interwar years. Exploring the intellectual production of
this important thinker, this book traces the historical context of
his ideas from 19th-century Bengal to Weimar Germany, through the
tumultuous period of world politics in the 1930s and 1940s, and on
to post-Independence India. In this book the author makes a number
of valuable theoretical contributions. He argues for the importance
of conceiving the 'deterritorial' zones of thought and action
through which Indian anti-colonial political thought operated, and
advances a new periodisation for Swadeshi on this basis. He also
argues against viewing 'international communism' of the 1920s as a
single monolith by highlighting the fractures and contestations
that influenced colonial politics worldwide. A fresh and insightful
perspective on the history of India in the interwar years, this
book will be of great interest to scholars and students of the
modern history of South and East Asia, America and Europe, and to
those interested in anti-colonial struggles, Communist politics and
trajectories of Marxist thought in the 20th century.
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