The Popular Front and the Global Circulation of Marxism through Calcutta, 1920s-1970s

Series Editor’s Foreword
Titles Published
Titles forthcoming
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
	Marxism and Publics
	Marx’s Own Writings and the Political Economies of Their Circulation
	Meanings of Marxism in Calcutta
		A Prehistory of Subaltern Studies
	The Global Circulation of Marxism Through Calcutta
	The Chapters
2 Of Homelands and Revolutions
	Swadeshi Culturalism and Communist Internationalism
		The Associations Before the Swadeshi: Their Techniques and Ideologies
		The Swadeshi Associations: Their Technologies and Textualities
		Swadeshi Culturalism and Socialist Internationalism: The Double Bind
	The Making of the Indian Resistance
		The Narrative of the Indian Renaissance
		Aurobindo’s Renaissance in India
		A Marxian Rendition of the Indian Renaissance: M. N. Roy’s India in Transition
		“Historic Materialism” and the “Transition” Narrative
	Conclusion
3 Popular Front and the Polyphony of Marxism
	Marxism Before the Popular Front
		“Actually Existing Socialism”: The Soviet in India
		The Indian Students Abroad: The Academic Circuits of Marxism
	The Split Between the Marxists and the Marxians
		Marxism in Jail: The Prisoners of the Meerut Conspiracy Case
		The Marxians on the Right: The Representations of the Intellectual
		The Left Marxians and the Representations of the Intellectual
	The Popular Front and the Representations of the Intellectual
		Polyphony of Marxism in the Popular Front
		Progressive Writers Association
		“Bhadra Sanskriti” Versus “Jana-Sanskriti”
		Indian People’s Theatre Association
	Conclusion
4 Meanings of Marxism: The Debate on the Bengal Renaissance and Marx’s Notes on Indian History
	The Various Versions of the Indian Renaissance
		Loyalist Historians and the Anti-Muslim  Version of the Renaissance Narrative
		The Right Marxians and the Indian Renaissance Institute
		The Left Marxians & the Notes on the Bengal Renaissance
	The Marxist Literary Debate and Marx’s Notes on Indian History
	The Cold War and the Separation of the Right and the Left Marxians
		The Peasant Bourgeois as the Agent of the Bengal Renaissance
		The Case Against the Awakening of the Peasant Bourgeois
		Reading Marx’s Notes on Indian History 664–1858
	Conclusion
5 The Afterlife of the Popular Front and the Academisation of Marxism
	Decolonisation and the Triumvirate of the Cold War
		Indian Institutes for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
	The Soviet Institutions in India
		The Asiatic Mode of Production:  The Limitations of Marx’s Writings on India
	The American Funders and Scholars
		The Intellectual Between Tradition and Modernity
		The Bengal Renaissance and the Euro-American Academia
	Cultural Revolution, Reading Gramsci and the Intellectual
		The Afterlife of “the Bengal Renaissance”
		Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks and the Bengal Renaissance
	Conclusion
6 Conclusion
	Literature on Mass Mediation
	Mass Mediation: Technology, Publics, Meanings
		Technology: Book History Versus History of Circulation
		Marxist Publics: The Popular Front and the Public Intellectual
		Meanings of Marxism: Subaltern Studies and the Representations of the Intellectual
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index