Sumit Sarkar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sumit Sarkar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sumit |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarkar |
| SIGNATURE | SARKAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3045-1024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Collaborative cheating and group confession: Findings from a natural experiment
This study is based on an incident of collaborative cheating by a group of postgraduate management students during an online quiz. There was direct evidence against eight students. Circumstantial evidence was found against another 49 in a class of 184 students (52.72% women, average age 24.03 years), and 28 of them confessed during the post-facto investigation. Gender and age were not significant factors for either cheating or confession. The stu…
Essays of a Lifetime: Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns
One or Many Histories? Identity Formations in Late-Colonial Bengal
Modern India
Subalternité et histoire globale
Sumit Sarkar, one of the leading Indian historians of his generation, participated in the Indian-British Subaltern Studies Collective that established new standards in the historiography of colonialism in the 1980’s. In this Interview, Déborah Cohen and Urs Lindner ask him about the achievements and oversights of the Subaltern Studies project, the prospects of global history, Marx’s eurocentrism and the problem of religion
The State of India
Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader
How reforms affecting women shaped Indian history
Nationalism and poverty: Discourses of development and culture in 20th century India
This paper interrogates the terms ‘developmental nationalism’ and ‘cultural nationalism’ to conclude that, because developmental nationalisms always have cultural elements and cultural nationalisms, developmental ones, the precise, and varied, meanings of ‘development’ and ‘culture’ demand careful scrutiny, as do the shifting proportions of their combinations in different ideological – political formations and in the confrontations and partial ac…
Inclusive Democracy and Its Enemies
Much like South Africa post-1994, the creation of democracy in India after 1947 was based on a secular nationalism committed to the recognition and accommodation of differences of religion, ethnicity, and culture. This article demonstrates the failure of this promise in India, most recently in the politicization of Hindu separatism and the massive violence which this unleashed against Muslims in Gujurat in 2002. There are more recent signs of a s…
Une ou plusieurs histoires ? Formations identitaires au Bengale à la fin de l'époque coloniale
La vague post-moderne semble perdre du terrain et les études historiques dépassant une approche étroitement ' culturaliste' ou ' discursive' ne sont plus nécessairement considérées comme obsolètes. Pour ceux qui sont demeurés critiques à l'égard des tendances dominantes de la fin des années 1980 et des années 1990, le moment est peut-être venu d'effectuer une évaluation de données qui ne soit plus principalement polémique, mais prenne en compte c…
On Raj Chandavarkar's The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 and Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the…
On Raj Chandavarkar's The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 and Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, c. 1850–1950, Ian Kerr's Building the Railways of the Raj, Dilip Simeon's The Politics of Labour under Late Colonialism: Workers, Unions and the State in Chota Nagpur, 1928–1939, Janaki Nair's Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and …
Post-modernism and the Writing of History
Who Is Afraid of Edward Said
Writing Social History
The eight essays in this volume seek to combine an empirical study of themes in late-colonial Indian history with an intervention in current debates about the extent and nature of Western colonial domination. Sumit Sarkar makes a powerful case for the importance of richly-detailed, nuanced social history
Renaissance and Kaliyuga: Time, Myth, and History in Colonial Bengal
Orientalism Revisited: Saidian Frameworks in the Writing of Modern Indian History
Popular culture, community, power: Three studies of modern Indian social history
The Gulf War and India
Political and Economic Structure 1885–1905
Till well into the twentieth century, British Government in India was basically an autocracy of hierarchically organized officials headed by the Viceroy and the Secretary of State, while the ultimate Parliamentary control was spasmodic and largely theoretical. Developments after 1858 had in fact considerably enhanced the personal role of the Viceroy-Secretary of State combine, while bringing them into much closer contact with each other through t…
Political Movements and War 1937–1945
The Congress did extremely well in the 1937 elections, winning 711 out of 1585 provincial assembly seats, with absolute majorities in five provinces out of eleven (Madras, Bihar, Orissa, C.P. and U.P.) and a near-majority in Bombay (86 out of 175). Official backing failed to save from utter rout loyalist landlord-based groups like the Nawab of Chhatari’s National Agriculturist Party in U.P. and the Justice Party in Madras. Even the poor showing i…
Nationalist Advance and Economic Depression 1927–37
The nine-and-a-half years between the appointment of the Simon Commission in November 1927 and the formation of popular ministries in the provinces in July 1937 were full of complex and often contradictory political developments. The national movement, deliberately and insultingly ignored through the setting-up of an all-white Commission to consider the next instalment of constitutional changes, fought its way through the First Civil Disobedience…
Mass Nationalism: Emergence and Problems 1917–1927
The war and the immediate post-war years witnessed truly dramatic changes in Indian life, the three universally accepted crucial landmarks being constitutional reforms (Secretary of State Montagu’s declaration of 20 August 1917, followed by the Montagu-Chelmsford Report of 1918 and the Government of India Act of 1919), the emergence of Gandhi as leader of a qualitatively new all-India mass nationalism, and important shifts in India’s colonial eco…
Freedom and Partition 1945–1947
Two basic strands emerge from the maze of events during the last two years of British rule: tortuous negotiations between British, Congress and League statesmen, increasingly accompanied by communal violence, and culminating in a freedom which was also a tragic partition; and sporadic, localized, but often extremely militant and united mass actions—the I.N.A. release movement and the R.I.N. Mutiny in 1945–46, numerous strikes throughout the perio…
Social and Political Movements 1885–1905
Our survey so far of the structure of colonial political and economic domination has indicated the roots of numerous conflicts—between imperialism and most sections of the Indian people, as well as between various groups or classes within Indian society itself. What must be explored now are the ways in which these contradictions surfaced in the life and thought and activities of our people, and here the already-mentioned major lag in social histo…
Political and Social Movements 1905–1917
Lord Curzon’s administration has remained famous—and notorious—for its intense activity and veritable cult of efficiency. ‘Efficiency of administration is, in my view, a synonym for the contentment of the governed’, the Viceroy declared in a budget speech in 1904. The net result was the beginning of quite a new phase in the history of Indian nationalism with the struggle against the Partition of Bengal.
Modern India 1885-1947
Orientalism Revisited: Saidian Frameworks in the Writing of Modern Indian History
On Raj Chandavarkar's The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 and Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the…
On Raj Chandavarkar's The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 and Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, c. 1850–1950, Ian Kerr's Building the Railways of the Raj, Dilip Simeon's The Politics of Labour under Late Colonialism: Workers, Unions and the State in Chota Nagpur, 1928–1939, Janaki Nair's Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and …
Nationalism and poverty: Discourses of development and culture in 20th century India
This paper interrogates the terms ‘developmental nationalism’ and ‘cultural nationalism’ to conclude that, because developmental nationalisms always have cultural elements and cultural nationalisms, developmental ones, the precise, and varied, meanings of ‘development’ and ‘culture’ demand careful scrutiny, as do the shifting proportions of their combinations in different ideological – political formations and in the confrontations and partial ac…
Post-modernism and the Writing of History
Hindu-Muslim Relations in Swadeshi Bengal, 1903-1908
Une ou plusieurs histoires ? Formations identitaires au Bengale à la fin de l'époque coloniale
La vague post-moderne semble perdre du terrain et les études historiques dépassant une approche étroitement ' culturaliste' ou ' discursive' ne sont plus nécessairement considérées comme obsolètes. Pour ceux qui sont demeurés critiques à l'égard des tendances dominantes de la fin des années 1980 et des années 1990, le moment est peut-être venu d'effectuer une évaluation de données qui ne soit plus principalement polémique, mais prenne en compte c…
Popular culture, community, power: Three studies of modern Indian social history
Autonomy for Whom
Hindu-Muslim Relations in Swadeshi Bengal, 1903-1908
India: Socialism in India Ed. By B.R. Nanda. Issued under the Auspices of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Vikas, Delhi, 1972, vi, 289p. Rs. 35.00
The Communists and 1942
Political and Economic Structure 1885–1905
Till well into the twentieth century, British Government in India was basically an autocracy of hierarchically organized officials headed by the Viceroy and the Secretary of State, while the ultimate Parliamentary control was spasmodic and largely theoretical. Developments after 1858 had in fact considerably enhanced the personal role of the Viceroy-Secretary of State combine, while bringing them into much closer contact with each other through t…
Political Movements and War 1937–1945
The Congress did extremely well in the 1937 elections, winning 711 out of 1585 provincial assembly seats, with absolute majorities in five provinces out of eleven (Madras, Bihar, Orissa, C.P. and U.P.) and a near-majority in Bombay (86 out of 175). Official backing failed to save from utter rout loyalist landlord-based groups like the Nawab of Chhatari’s National Agriculturist Party in U.P. and the Justice Party in Madras. Even the poor showing i…
Nationalist Advance and Economic Depression 1927–37
The nine-and-a-half years between the appointment of the Simon Commission in November 1927 and the formation of popular ministries in the provinces in July 1937 were full of complex and often contradictory political developments. The national movement, deliberately and insultingly ignored through the setting-up of an all-white Commission to consider the next instalment of constitutional changes, fought its way through the First Civil Disobedience…
Mass Nationalism: Emergence and Problems 1917–1927
The war and the immediate post-war years witnessed truly dramatic changes in Indian life, the three universally accepted crucial landmarks being constitutional reforms (Secretary of State Montagu’s declaration of 20 August 1917, followed by the Montagu-Chelmsford Report of 1918 and the Government of India Act of 1919), the emergence of Gandhi as leader of a qualitatively new all-India mass nationalism, and important shifts in India’s colonial eco…
Freedom and Partition 1945–1947
Two basic strands emerge from the maze of events during the last two years of British rule: tortuous negotiations between British, Congress and League statesmen, increasingly accompanied by communal violence, and culminating in a freedom which was also a tragic partition; and sporadic, localized, but often extremely militant and united mass actions—the I.N.A. release movement and the R.I.N. Mutiny in 1945–46, numerous strikes throughout the perio…
Social and Political Movements 1885–1905
Our survey so far of the structure of colonial political and economic domination has indicated the roots of numerous conflicts—between imperialism and most sections of the Indian people, as well as between various groups or classes within Indian society itself. What must be explored now are the ways in which these contradictions surfaced in the life and thought and activities of our people, and here the already-mentioned major lag in social histo…
Political and Social Movements 1905–1917
Lord Curzon’s administration has remained famous—and notorious—for its intense activity and veritable cult of efficiency. ‘Efficiency of administration is, in my view, a synonym for the contentment of the governed’, the Viceroy declared in a budget speech in 1904. The net result was the beginning of quite a new phase in the history of Indian nationalism with the struggle against the Partition of Bengal.
Modern India 1885-1947
Autonomy for Whom
The Gulf War and India
Popular culture, community, power: Three studies of modern Indian social history
Orientalism Revisited: Saidian Frameworks in the Writing of Modern Indian History
Renaissance and Kaliyuga: Time, Myth, and History in Colonial Bengal
Writing Social History
The eight essays in this volume seek to combine an empirical study of themes in late-colonial Indian history with an intervention in current debates about the extent and nature of Western colonial domination. Sumit Sarkar makes a powerful case for the importance of richly-detailed, nuanced social history
Post-modernism and the Writing of History
Who Is Afraid of Edward Said
On Raj Chandavarkar's The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 and Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the…
On Raj Chandavarkar's The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 and Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, c. 1850–1950, Ian Kerr's Building the Railways of the Raj, Dilip Simeon's The Politics of Labour under Late Colonialism: Workers, Unions and the State in Chota Nagpur, 1928–1939, Janaki Nair's Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and …
Inclusive Democracy and Its Enemies
Much like South Africa post-1994, the creation of democracy in India after 1947 was based on a secular nationalism committed to the recognition and accommodation of differences of religion, ethnicity, and culture. This article demonstrates the failure of this promise in India, most recently in the politicization of Hindu separatism and the massive violence which this unleashed against Muslims in Gujurat in 2002. There are more recent signs of a s…
Une ou plusieurs histoires ? Formations identitaires au Bengale à la fin de l'époque coloniale
La vague post-moderne semble perdre du terrain et les études historiques dépassant une approche étroitement ' culturaliste' ou ' discursive' ne sont plus nécessairement considérées comme obsolètes. Pour ceux qui sont demeurés critiques à l'égard des tendances dominantes de la fin des années 1980 et des années 1990, le moment est peut-être venu d'effectuer une évaluation de données qui ne soit plus principalement polémique, mais prenne en compte c…
Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader
How reforms affecting women shaped Indian history
Nationalism and poverty: Discourses of development and culture in 20th century India
This paper interrogates the terms ‘developmental nationalism’ and ‘cultural nationalism’ to conclude that, because developmental nationalisms always have cultural elements and cultural nationalisms, developmental ones, the precise, and varied, meanings of ‘development’ and ‘culture’ demand careful scrutiny, as do the shifting proportions of their combinations in different ideological – political formations and in the confrontations and partial ac…
The State of India
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