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Politics and Left Unity in India - The United Front in Late Colonial India (Hardcover)
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Politics and Left Unity in India - The United Front in Late Colonial India (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History
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The historical assessments of Left unity in 1930s India
misrepresent activities designed to achieve unity. The common
treatment of the relationship between Indian socialists and
communists emphasizes disunity and the inability to find common
ground. Scholarly discussions about unity in fact highlight its
impracticality and the inevitability of its failure. This book
proposes that during this moment, for socialists and communists,
unity was not just an ideal, but was in fact considered to be a
possible and very realizable goal. Rather than focusing exclusively
on ideological fissures as the literature does, the book explores
the possibilities for unity. The author investigates the United
Front as a conceptual framework for collaboration, as a scheme for
assessing the extent to which cooperation between socialists and
communists was feasible and practicable during the
mid-to-late-1930s in India. He employs the notion of United Front
as an instrument for identifying and compensating for the
prejudices which permeate sources about the cooperation between the
Congress Socialist Party (CSP) and the Communist Party of India
(CPI). The author challenges the historicism found in extant
scholarly assessments of Left unity by illustrating the ways in
which the partners engaged in united front activities and
approached the common goal of Left unity despite their fragmented
ideological perspectives. The book presents the United Front not as
an unsuccessful phase of collaboration, but rather as a concerted
attempt to achieve ideological convergence and Left homogeneity
which ultimately failed to radicalize Indian nationalism because,
in reality, conditions for Left unity did not exist. The book will
be of interest to academics studying South Asian history and
politics in particular, and socialism, communism, nationalism and
imperialism more generally.
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