Pet ke waaste’

At its peak, the East Indian Railway strike of 1922 affected more than 1500 kilometres of rail and involved tens of thousands of workers. The strike was an exemplary moment in Indian worker politics. It advanced an idiom of citizenship, distinct from Gandhian non-cooperation and Congress nationalism, in order to make claims for redress on their employer and the state, and simultaneously, to exhibit profound social power against the colonial state and would-be nationalist representatives. Though this strike began in response to allegations of a brutal assault, the demands of the workers, I will argue, expose the limits of both political nationalism and colonialism. To establish this point, the EIR strike is placed in a trans-colonial context with Kenya, which allows for the appreciation of the interwar period as a transformative moment in worker politics. Not only did the Indian strike actively resist Gandhi’s proscriptions on striking and maintaining financial ties to the railway company, the workers also moved against the authority of the colonial state by appropriating discourses of governance that were conventionally used against them. Thus, while the strike relied on the breakdown of colonial authority resulting from nationalist agitation, the strike exceeded the purview of elite politics

Archaeology · Citizenship · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Elite · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Redress · Sociology · State (computer science · Suffrage · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law

• Self-Help which Ennobles a Nation

  Open Access•Benjamin Siegel•Modern Asian Studies•2016

  Incluir item

• The Emergence of an Industrial Labor Force in India

  Morris David Morris, David Morris Morris•Emergence of an Industrial Labor…•1965

  Incluir item

• Specters of Mother India

  Daniel J Walkowitz, Mrinalini Sinha•Specters of Mother India•2006

  Incluir item

• From slaves to squatters

  Frederick Cooper•From slaves to squatters•1997

  Incluir item

• The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India

  Open Access•Rajnarayan Chandavarkar•Origins of Industrial Capitalism…•1994

  Incluir item

• Punishment and the Political Body

  Open Access•Steven Pierce•Discipline and the Other Body•2006

  Incluir item

• Struggles for Citizenship in Africa

  Bronwen Manby•Struggles for Citizenship in Africa•2009

  Incluir item

• Lines of the Nation

  L Bear•Lines of the Nation•2007

  Incluir item

• Selected Subaltern studies

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ranajit Guha•Selected Subaltern studies•1988

  Incluir item

• The Perils of Belonging

  P Geschiere•Perils of Belonging•2009

  Incluir item

• Decolonization and African Society

  Open Access•Frederick Cooper, Faith Cooper•Decolonization and African Society•1996

  Incluir item

• Colonialism in Question

  Frederick Cooper•Colonialism in question•2005

  Incluir item

• The Development of an African Working Class

  Frances Hill, Richard Sandbrook et al.•ASA Review of Books•1978

  Incluir item

• Conflict and Connection

  Frederick Cooper, Faith Cooper•The American Historical Review•1994

  Incluir item

• Juridification and the Construction of Social Citizenship

  Open Access•Anne‐mette Magnussen, Even Nilssen•Journal of Law and Society•2013

  Incluir item

• Post-modernism and the Writing of History

  Open Access•Sumit Sarkar•Studies in History•1999

  Incluir item

• Beyond the ‘working class'; women's role in Indian industrialisation

  Samita Sen•South Asia Journal of South Asian…•1999

  Incluir item

• Provincializing Europe

  R Bin Wong, Dipesh Chakrabarty•The American Historical Review•2001

  Incluir item

• Politicised Ethnicity, Competitive Politics and Conflict in Kenya

  Rok Ajulu•African Studies•2002

  Incluir item

• Beyond Slavery

  David Northrup, Frederick Cooper et al.•The American Historical Review•2001

  Incluir item

• Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism

  Gyan Prakash•The American Historical Review•1994

  Incluir item

• Making Coolies, (Un)making Workers

  Open Access•Gopalan Balachandran•Journal of Historical Sociology•2011

  Incluir item

• Questions of class

  Open Access•Rajnarayan Chandavarkar•Contributions to Indian Sociology•1999

  Incluir item

• Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History

  Dipesh Chakrabarty•Representations•1992

  Incluir item

• Communal Riots and Labour

  Dipesh Chakrabarty•Past & Present•1981

  Incluir item

• Labour and Politics in Nigeria, 1945-1971

  Douglas G Anglin, Robin Cohen•The International Journal of…•1975

  Incluir item

• The Paradox of Peasant Worker

  Open Access•Subho Basu•Modern Asian Studies•2008

  Incluir item

• Customs of Governance

  Open Access•Rajnarayan Chandavarkar•Modern Asian Studies•2007

  Incluir item

• Workers' Politics and the Mill Districts in Bombay between the Wars

  Open Access•Rajnarayan Chandavarkar•Modern Asian Studies•1981

  Incluir item

• The World of Workers' Politics

  Open Access•Nitin Sinha•Modern Asian Studies•2008

  Incluir item

• Punishment and the Political Body Flogging and Colonialism in Northern Nigeria

  Steven Pierce•Interventions•2001

  Incluir item

• Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India

  Aimei Yang, Anand A Yang et al.•The American Historical Review•1985

  Incluir item

• Citizen and Subject

  Mahmood Mamdani•Citizen and Subject•2018

  Incluir item

• Race, Class and Militancy

  Michael Banton, R D Grillo et al.•Man•1975

  Incluir item

• Crises of Accumulation, Coercion and the Colonial State

  Bruce J Berman, John Lonsdale et al.•Canadian Journal of African…•1980

  Incluir item

• Empire, Race and the Indians in Colonial Kenya's Contested Public Political Sphere, 1919-1923

  Open Access•Sana Aiyar•Africa•2011

  Incluir item