Provincializing the International
Communist Print Worlds in Colonial India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ali Raza (0000-0001-7043-2472, Lahore University of Management Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Pages | 140-153 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbaa011 |
| OpenAlex | W3005813176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This paper charts communist print worlds in colonial India during the interwar period. Beginning in the early 1920s, self-declared 'Communist' and 'Bolshevik' publications began surfacing across India. Through the example of the Kirti Kisan Sabha (Workers and Peasants Party: a communist group in the north-western province of Punjab), and its associated publications, this paper will provide a glimpse into the rich, diverse and imaginative print worlds of Indian communism. From 1926 onwards, Kirti publications became a part of a thriving print culture in which a dizzying variety of revolutionary, socialist and communist publications competed and conversed with the equally prolific and rich print worlds of their political and ideological rivals. Removed on the one hand from the ivory towers of party intellectuals, dense treatises and officious theses, and on the other hand from the framing of sedition, rebellion and fanaticism in the colonial archive, Kirti publications show how the global project of communist internationalism became distinctly provincialized and vernacularized in British India
Ancient history · Colonialism · Communism · Economic history · Internationalism (politics) · Political science · Politics · Sedition · Social science · Sociology · Thriving · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · History · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |