04093cam a22005297i 4500 23149147 OSt 20230907131324.0 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 210729s2022 enk ob 001 0 eng d 2021762294 9781032233499 9781138056794 (OCoLC)1262136394 9781003195795 Taylor & Francis N$T eng rda pn N$T N$T OCLCO TYFRS OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ DLC lccopycat a-ii--- HX391.5 POL 054000 bisacsh POL 005000 bisacsh POL 010000 bisacsh 1F bicssc 320.532095483 MAN/C Mannathukkaren, Nissim author. 9438 Communism, subaltern studies and postcolonial theory : the left in south India / Nissim Mannathukkaren. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2022. 437 p Includes bibliographical references and index. This book is a thematic history of the communist movement in Kerala, the first major region (in terms of population) in the world to democratically elect a communist government. It analyzes the nature of the transformation brought about by the communist movement in Kerala, and what its implications could be for other postcolonial societies. The volume engages with the key theoretical concepts in postcolonial theory and Subaltern Studies, and contributes to the debate between Marxism and postcolonial theory, especially its recent articulations. The volume presents a fresh empirical engagement with theoretical critiques of Subaltern Studies and postcolonial theory, in the context of their decades-long scholarship in India. It discusses important thematic moments in Kerala's communist history which include -- the processes by which it established its hegemony, its cultural interventions, the institution of land reforms and workers' rights, and the democratic decentralization project, and, ultimately, communism's incomplete national-popular and its massive failures with regard to the caste question. A significant contribution to scholarship on democracy and modernity in the Global South, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, specifically political theory, democracy and political participation, political sociology, development studies, postcolonial theory, Subaltern Studies, Global South Studies, and South Asia Studies. Nissim Mannathukkaren is Associate Professor in the International Development Studies Department at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is the author of the book The Rupture with Memory: Derrida and the Specters that Haunt Marxism(2006). His research has been published in journals such as Citizenship Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, Third World Quarterly, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Critical Realism, International Journal of the History of Sport, Dialectical Anthropology, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Sikh Formations. He is a regular op-ed contributor to the English-language press in India. Print version record. Communism India Kerala History. Postcolonialism India Kerala. Postcolonialisme Inde Kerala. POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Ideologies Communism & Socialism. bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE History & Theory. bisacsh Communism. fast (OCoLC)fst00870421 Politics and government. fast (OCoLC)fst01919741 Postcolonialism. fast (OCoLC)fst01073032 Kerala (India) Politics and government. India Kerala. fast (OCoLC)fst01205181 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Print version: MANNATHUKKAREN, NISSIM. COMMUNISM, SUBALTERN STUDIES AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY. [Place of publication not identified] : ROUTLEDGE INDIA, 2021 1138056790 (OCoLC)1237631445 ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 LIT MES MES ENG 2023-09-07 0 320.532095483 MAN/C 42364 2023-09-07 16:15:41 1595.00 2023-09-07 BK GR14R3 42141 42141