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Author Kuracina, William F., author.

Title Politics and left unity in India : the united front in late colonial India / William F. Kuracina
Edition First edition
Published London : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge studies in South Asian history
Routledge studies in South Asian history.
Contents Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Foundations of the united front -- chapter 2 United front as mass activism -- chapter 3 United front within the Congress -- chapter 4 Congress as united front -- chapter 5 Conflict about unity -- chapter 6 2Unity in action3 and the 2fighting alliance3 -- chapter 7 Twilight of the united front -- chapter 8 The 2pioneers of unity3 -- chapter 8 The 2pioneers of unity3225 Bibliography
Summary "The historical assessments of Left unity in 1930s India misrepresent activities designed to achieve unity. The common treatment of the relationship between Indian socialists and communists emphasizes disunity and the inability to find common ground. Scholarly discussions about unity in fact highlight its impracticality and the inevitability of its failure.?This book proposes that during this moment, for socialists and communists, unity was not just an ideal, but was in fact considered to be a possible and very realizable goal. Rather than focusing exclusively on ideological fissures as the literature does, the book explores the possibilities for unity. The author investigates the United Front as a conceptual framework for collaboration, as a scheme for assessing the extent to which cooperation between socialists and communists was feasible and practicable during the mid-to-late-1930s in India. He employs the notion of United Front as an instrument for identifying and compensating for the prejudices which permeate sources about the cooperation between the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI).?The author challenges the historicism found in extant scholarly assessments of Left unity by illustrating the ways in which the partners engaged in united front activities and approached the common goal of Left unity despite their fragmented ideological perspectives. The book presents the United Front not as an unsuccessful phase of collaboration, but rather as a concerted attempt to achieve ideological convergence and Left homogeneity which ultimately failed to radicalize Indian nationalism because, in reality, conditions for Left unity did not exist. The book will be of interest to academics studying South Asian history and politics in particular, and socialism, communism, nationalism and imperialism more generally."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 13, 2017)
Subject Socialism -- India -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Socialism
India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315166230
1315166232