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(2023), "Index", Plys, K., Priyansh and Goonewardena, K. (Ed.) Marxist Thought in South Asia (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 40), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 197-202. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-871920230000040015
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INDEX
Aashob
, 65–66
Aazadi aur Wajodiat (Freedom and Existentialism), 67–68
Adab Braye Adab (literature for the sake of literature), 64
Adab Braye Zindagi (literature for life), 64
Adab-a-Aalia (Great Literature), 63
Aesthetics of cricket, 104–109
Africa, 155
Agency, 79–81
“Agha Khani” period, 55
All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), 186
All Indian Trade Union Congress (AITUC), 4
American civil rights, 183
Analysis of situations, 33
Anti-caste struggles, 9–10
Anti-colonial Marxism, 154–155
colonial-fascism, 172–176
Dalit, anti-fascist, 163–164
French India, 157–158
internationalist anti-imperialist marxism, 167–172
Portuguese India, 155–157
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986), 164–166
V Subbiah, 158–162
Anti-colonialism, 1–2
Anti-fascism, 163–164
Anti-fascist movement, 163–164
Anti-globalization movement, 125–126
Appropriation, 134
Aragalaya (struggle), 27–28, 122
Archetypes, 65
Armed struggle, 164–165
Asian Institute of Development (AID), 24
Awami League, 60–61
Awami Tehreek
, 82–83
Awami Tehrik
, 78–79
Babri mosque, 113
Balance of forces, 33
Bandung Conference, 59
Barbarism, 23–24
Bengal Indigo Disturbances of 1859, 2–3
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 113
Biraderi ties, 40–41
Black athletes, 107–108
in North America, 101
Black Panther movement, 183
Blue Mutiny of Champaran in 1917, 2–3
Bolshevik Revolution, 125
Bonapartism, 34–35, 37–38, 137–138
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS), 126
British rule, 2–5
Capitalism, 2, 23, 131–132, 143–144
Capitalist exploitation, 77–78
Carnation Revolution, 171
Caste, 5
Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA), 165–166
Ceylon Communist Party, 24
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, 24
City, 24
Class, 31, 185–186
class-caste struggle, 163
solidarity, 41
Class struggles, 126, 163
in theory, 68–69
CLR James, 100
Co-optation, 122–123, 134
Collective consciousness, 65
Colonial roots of postcolonial confusion, 54–56
Colonial social formation, 31–32
Colonial-fascism, 172–176
Colonial-fascist regime, 172
Colonialism, 21
Combat, 161–162
Commodification of body, 84–87
Communalism, 55
Communism, 181–182, 184
Communist Manifesto
, 181–182
Communist Party (CP), 138
Communist Party of Ceylon (CPSL), 6–7
Communist Party of India (CPI), 3–4, 48, 56, 181–182
Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), 159
Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas (CONCP), 165
Conjunctural awareness, 41–43
Country, 24
Cricket, 100–102, 106
Cricket watchers, 105
Crisis, image of, 122–125
Cultural centres, 160–161
Cultural Marxism, 52
Dalit, 163–164
Decolonization, 84–85
Defeatism, 65
Défice científico do colonizador, 170
Dependency theory, 12–13, 48, 52
Desertion, 2–3
Development, 19–20
Diagnostic of power, 80–81
Dialectics
of form and content, 69–70
of individual freedom and submission to collectivism, 66–68
Dictatorship, 37–38
Disciplined spontaneity, 110
Dispossession, 131
Domestic elites, 125
Domestic manufacturing, 133
Economic breakdown in Sri Lanka, 133–135
Electrification, 26–27
Elites, 125
Empire, 154
Epistemology of resistance, 188
Estado Novo
, 155–156
Ethnic consciousness, 168
Ethnicity, 35–36
Eventual liberation, 77–78
Expansive love, 89
Exploitation, 77–78
Failed nation-building project, 53–62
Fascism, 52
Female friendships, 76–77
Feminist scholarship in Pakistan, 76–77
Feudal system, 86
Feudalism, 61
Financialization, 124–125, 131, 133
Fiscal consolidation, 131
Free Trade Zones (FTZs), 130
French Empire, 154
French India, 157–158
Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), 154–155, 171
G.V.S. de Silva, 19–20
Gandhian Freedom Movement, 158
Gender, 184
Géo Gras Group, 161–162
Geopolitical polarization, 125–126
German Ideology, The
, 184–185
Ghazal (lyrical poem), 69–70
Global capitalism, 130
Global unraveling, 125–126
GotaGoHome, 134
Great Hartal of 1953, 122, 136, 138
Great Revolt, 122–123
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 133
Halqa-e-Arabab-e-Zooq
, 64–65
Hamza Alavi, 30
conjunctural awareness, 41–43
peasantry and revolution, 38–41
post-colonial state and related concerns, 31–38
Heer Waris Shah
, 66
Hegemony, 33
Heretical Thoughts, 24–26
Himani Bannerji, interview with, 181–182
Hindu nationalism, 13–14, 101–102
Holy Family, The
, 184–185
Housewifization, 81, 86
Ideology, 184–185
Imperialism, 8, 22, 170
Import Substitution Industrialisation (ISI), 39
Independence of Bangladesh, 60–62
Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), 181–182
Indigenous bourgeoisie, 31–32
Industrial Development Board, 24
Industrialization, 131–133
Inquilab (Urdu-language newspaper), 4–5
Institutional materiality, 37
Interlocking oppressions, 42
Intermediate regime, 136–138
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), 136
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 79, 123
International Sovereign Bonds (ISBs), 124–125
Internationalist anti-imperialist marxism, 167–172
Islamization, 78–79
Jallianwala Bagh massacre, 158
Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), 50, 59–60
Jinnah League, 56
Karo Kari
, 90
Khawateen Mahaz-e-Amal, 78–79
Khoti
, 10
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), 58
Krishak Praja Party, 56
Labor inside and outside capitalist wage relations, 142–143
Labour Advisory Boards, 4
Labour uprisings, 2–3
Landowning class, 31–32
Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), 6–7, 135–136
Left liberal historiography, 54
Left politics, 50
Leftist newspaper offices, 160–161
Liberal discourses, 49
Liberal feminists, 81
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), 124
Longue Durée Origins of the Present Crisis
, 129–131
Love, 91–95
Lucknow Pact, 55–56
Lusotropicalism, 155–156
Madras Labour Union, 3
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), 23–24
Mardangi ki Nafsiat aur Inqalabi Amal (Psychology of Masculinity and Revolutionary Activism), 68–69
Marxism, 1–2, 19–20, 52, 154–155, 181–182
British rule, 2–5
after independence, 5–8
issue, 11–16
Marxist aesthetics, 101
Marxist feminism, 76
commodification of body, 84–87
love and revolution, 91–95
murder, 87–91
poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives as archive, 82–84
Marxist Feminists, 77–78
Marxist theorizing from South Asia, 8–11
Masculinity, 68–69
Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP), 60
Metropolitan bourgeoisie, 31–32
Miar-e-Zindagi aur Aazadi (Standard/Quality of Life and Freedom), 67
Military dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq, 78–79
Mirror of Class, The (1989), 185–186
Mohammed Azharuddin, 100
aesthetics of cricket; politics of sport, 104–109
recording of Azharuddin’s memory, 102–104
shocker!, 112–115
with willow, 109–112
Mojuda Soort-e-Hal aur Adab (Current Situation and Literature), 68
Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD), 83
Movimento Anti-colonialista (MAC), 165
Muhajir ethnicity, 35–36
Multitude, 127
Murda Muashray Ki Zindagi (Life of a Dead Society), 66–67
Murder, 87–91
Murdering, 87–88
Muslim feminity, 79–80
Muslim League (ML), 55
Muslim minority provinces of India, 55–56
Muslims–Hindu divide in India, 57–58
Naey Loug (New People), 50
NAP, 60
Nation-class, 168
National bourgeoisie, 23
National contradiction, 59
National liberation, 167
National Students Federation (NSF), 60
National Students Organization (NSO), 50
Navyug (Communist literary journal), 4–5
Naxal Movement, 12–13
in India, 49
Nazism, 52
Neo-imperialism, 39
Neocolonialism, 12–13, 48, 52
New International Economic Order (NIEO), 125
Newly independent countries (NICs), 12–13, 48
Non-Aligned Movement, 59
Non-settler colonialism, 21
Nongovernmental organization (NGO), 79
One Unit Scheme, 78–79
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 184
Paddy Lands Act of 1957, 23–24, 138
Pakistan, 30, 48
as “failed nation” or problems of failed nation-building project, 53–62
contours of emergence of postcolonial theory in, 62–70
feminist scholarship in, 76–77
poverty of feminist theory in, 77–82
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), 50–51
Pakistan Trade Union Federation (PTUF), 5–6
Pakistani Left, 57
Parti Communiste de l’Inde Française (PCIF), 154–155
Participative Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA), 24
Passive revolution, 36, 122–123
Peace dividend, 124
Peasantry, 40
Perfume ball, 105
Peripheral capitalism, 31–32
Permanent Settlement law in Bengal, 58
Pessimism, 65
Plantations, 20–21
Plurality, 36
Pluralizing class, 127–128
Poems of resistance, 190
eulogy, 192
Salman Haider, 195–196
secret passage, 193
story-teller’s dilemma, 195
Political activism, 107–108
Political Economy of Underdevelopment, The
, 20
Political forces, 59–60
Political horizon, 147–149
Political protests, 76
Political regime, 135–136
Political response in Sri Lanka, 133–135
Politics of sport, 104–109
Portuguese Empire, 154
Portuguese India, 155–157
Post-colonial countries, 19–20
Post-colonial developmentalism, 39
Post-colonial political economy, 2
Post-colonial position, 2
Post-colonial social formation, 31–32
Post-colonial theory, 12–13, 48–49, 51–52, 62, 70
Postcolonial confusion, 60–62
Postcolonial critique, 49
Postcolonial feminism, 80
Postcolonial feminists, 82
Postcolonial nation-building in Pakistan, 56–60
Poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives (2017), 76
as archive, 82–84
Progressive Writers Association (PWA), 54, 64
Provincialism, 30–31
Psychoanalysis of metaphors, 66
Public libraries, 160–161
Punjab Communist Party, 5–6
Qaidyani Ji Diary
, 83
Qool-o-Qarar (Giving Consent), 63
Quasi-Weberian flirtation, 35
Race, 184
Racial capitalism, 2
Ramjanmabhumi movement, 113
Ranadive Line, 7
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 113
Regime of accumulation, 135–136
Resistance in meantime, 128–129
Revisionist revolutionaries, 60
Revolts, 122
Revolution, 91, 95, 146–147
in meantime, 128–129
Rowmari Garden Uprising in 1903, 2–3
Ruling class reaction and struggle, 139–140
S.B.D. de Silva, 19–20
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
“Secular-liberal-left” politics, 80–81
Self-consciousness, 63
Self-indulgence, 64–65
Self-sufficiency, 125
Settler colonialism, 21
Shafi League, 56
Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality), 63
Shock, 113
Sindh, 76–77
Sindhiani Tehreek
, 83
Sindhiani Tehrik
, 78–79
Socialism, 23–24
Socialist Party of French India, 162
Solidarity, 94
South Asia, 1–3, 154
Marxist theorizing from, 8–11
Soviet power, 26–27
Sri Lanka, 122
conceptual framework, 125–129
crisis, 122–125
critique of political economy, 140–146
economic breakdown and political response in, 133–135
external and internal dimensions, 129–135
future directions, 146–149
relations between state and society, 135–140
trajectory within global order, 123–125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), 136–137
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), 123
State, 30
regime, 135–136
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), 124
Student Federation of India (SFI), 181–182
Style, 105
Subaltern Studies in India, 52
Suppression, 122–123
Tashkent Declaration, 60
Tebbit Test, 103–104
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986), 164–166
Trade unions, 160, 168
Traditional Left, 53–54
Tribal channels, 168
Trickster, 108
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature, 23
United Front (UF), 138
United National Party (UNP), 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 24
War on Terror, 53
West Indian renaissance, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF), 78–79
Working people, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime, 138–139
World Bank, 79
World-historical figures, 109
World-systems analysis, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
Aashob
, 65–66
Aazadi aur Wajodiat (Freedom and Existentialism)
, 67–68
Adab Braye Adab (literature for the sake of literature)
, 64
Adab Braye Zindagi (literature for life)
, 64
Adab-a-Aalia (Great Literature)
, 63
Aesthetics of cricket
, 104–109
Africa
, 155
Agency
, 79–81
“Agha Khani” period
, 55
All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA)
, 186
All Indian Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
, 4
American civil rights
, 183
Analysis of situations
, 33
Anti-caste struggles
, 9–10
Anti-colonial Marxism
, 154–155
colonial-fascism
, 172–176
Dalit, anti-fascist
, 163–164
French India
, 157–158
internationalist anti-imperialist marxism
, 167–172
Portuguese India
, 155–157
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986)
, 164–166
V Subbiah
, 158–162
Anti-colonialism
, 1–2
Anti-fascism
, 163–164
Anti-fascist movement
, 163–164
Anti-globalization movement
, 125–126
Appropriation
, 134
Aragalaya (struggle)
, 27–28, 122
Archetypes
, 65
Armed struggle
, 164–165
Asian Institute of Development (AID)
, 24
Awami League
, 60–61
Awami Tehreek
, 82–83
Awami Tehrik
, 78–79
Babri mosque
, 113
Balance of forces
, 33
Bandung Conference
, 59
Barbarism
, 23–24
Bengal Indigo Disturbances of 1859
, 2–3
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
, 113
Biraderi ties
, 40–41
Black athletes
, 107–108
in North America
, 101
Black Panther movement
, 183
Blue Mutiny of Champaran in 1917
, 2–3
Bolshevik Revolution
, 125
Bonapartism
, 34–35, 37–38, 137–138
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS)
, 126
British rule
, 2–5
Capitalism, 2, 23, 131–132, 143–144
Capitalist exploitation, 77–78
Carnation Revolution, 171
Caste, 5
Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA), 165–166
Ceylon Communist Party, 24
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, 24
City, 24
Class, 31, 185–186
class-caste struggle, 163
solidarity, 41
Class struggles, 126, 163
in theory, 68–69
CLR James, 100
Co-optation, 122–123, 134
Collective consciousness, 65
Colonial roots of postcolonial confusion, 54–56
Colonial social formation, 31–32
Colonial-fascism, 172–176
Colonial-fascist regime, 172
Colonialism, 21
Combat, 161–162
Commodification of body, 84–87
Communalism, 55
Communism, 181–182, 184
Communist Manifesto
, 181–182
Communist Party (CP), 138
Communist Party of Ceylon (CPSL), 6–7
Communist Party of India (CPI), 3–4, 48, 56, 181–182
Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), 159
Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas (CONCP), 165
Conjunctural awareness, 41–43
Country, 24
Cricket, 100–102, 106
Cricket watchers, 105
Crisis, image of, 122–125
Cultural centres, 160–161
Cultural Marxism, 52
Dalit, 163–164
Decolonization, 84–85
Defeatism, 65
Défice científico do colonizador, 170
Dependency theory, 12–13, 48, 52
Desertion, 2–3
Development, 19–20
Diagnostic of power, 80–81
Dialectics
of form and content, 69–70
of individual freedom and submission to collectivism, 66–68
Dictatorship, 37–38
Disciplined spontaneity, 110
Dispossession, 131
Domestic elites, 125
Domestic manufacturing, 133
Economic breakdown in Sri Lanka, 133–135
Electrification, 26–27
Elites, 125
Empire, 154
Epistemology of resistance, 188
Estado Novo
, 155–156
Ethnic consciousness, 168
Ethnicity, 35–36
Eventual liberation, 77–78
Expansive love, 89
Exploitation, 77–78
Failed nation-building project, 53–62
Fascism, 52
Female friendships, 76–77
Feminist scholarship in Pakistan, 76–77
Feudal system, 86
Feudalism, 61
Financialization, 124–125, 131, 133
Fiscal consolidation, 131
Free Trade Zones (FTZs), 130
French Empire, 154
French India, 157–158
Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), 154–155, 171
G.V.S. de Silva, 19–20
Gandhian Freedom Movement, 158
Gender, 184
Géo Gras Group, 161–162
Geopolitical polarization, 125–126
German Ideology, The
, 184–185
Ghazal (lyrical poem), 69–70
Global capitalism, 130
Global unraveling, 125–126
GotaGoHome, 134
Great Hartal of 1953, 122, 136, 138
Great Revolt, 122–123
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 133
Halqa-e-Arabab-e-Zooq
, 64–65
Hamza Alavi, 30
conjunctural awareness, 41–43
peasantry and revolution, 38–41
post-colonial state and related concerns, 31–38
Heer Waris Shah
, 66
Hegemony, 33
Heretical Thoughts, 24–26
Himani Bannerji, interview with, 181–182
Hindu nationalism, 13–14, 101–102
Holy Family, The
, 184–185
Housewifization, 81, 86
Ideology, 184–185
Imperialism, 8, 22, 170
Import Substitution Industrialisation (ISI), 39
Independence of Bangladesh, 60–62
Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), 181–182
Indigenous bourgeoisie, 31–32
Industrial Development Board, 24
Industrialization, 131–133
Inquilab (Urdu-language newspaper), 4–5
Institutional materiality, 37
Interlocking oppressions, 42
Intermediate regime, 136–138
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), 136
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 79, 123
International Sovereign Bonds (ISBs), 124–125
Internationalist anti-imperialist marxism, 167–172
Islamization, 78–79
Jallianwala Bagh massacre, 158
Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), 50, 59–60
Jinnah League, 56
Karo Kari
, 90
Khawateen Mahaz-e-Amal, 78–79
Khoti
, 10
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), 58
Krishak Praja Party, 56
Labor inside and outside capitalist wage relations, 142–143
Labour Advisory Boards, 4
Labour uprisings, 2–3
Landowning class, 31–32
Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), 6–7, 135–136
Left liberal historiography, 54
Left politics, 50
Leftist newspaper offices, 160–161
Liberal discourses, 49
Liberal feminists, 81
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), 124
Longue Durée Origins of the Present Crisis
, 129–131
Love, 91–95
Lucknow Pact, 55–56
Lusotropicalism, 155–156
Madras Labour Union, 3
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), 23–24
Mardangi ki Nafsiat aur Inqalabi Amal (Psychology of Masculinity and Revolutionary Activism), 68–69
Marxism, 1–2, 19–20, 52, 154–155, 181–182
British rule, 2–5
after independence, 5–8
issue, 11–16
Marxist aesthetics, 101
Marxist feminism, 76
commodification of body, 84–87
love and revolution, 91–95
murder, 87–91
poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives as archive, 82–84
Marxist Feminists, 77–78
Marxist theorizing from South Asia, 8–11
Masculinity, 68–69
Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP), 60
Metropolitan bourgeoisie, 31–32
Miar-e-Zindagi aur Aazadi (Standard/Quality of Life and Freedom), 67
Military dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq, 78–79
Mirror of Class, The (1989), 185–186
Mohammed Azharuddin, 100
aesthetics of cricket; politics of sport, 104–109
recording of Azharuddin’s memory, 102–104
shocker!, 112–115
with willow, 109–112
Mojuda Soort-e-Hal aur Adab (Current Situation and Literature), 68
Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD), 83
Movimento Anti-colonialista (MAC), 165
Muhajir ethnicity, 35–36
Multitude, 127
Murda Muashray Ki Zindagi (Life of a Dead Society), 66–67
Murder, 87–91
Murdering, 87–88
Muslim feminity, 79–80
Muslim League (ML), 55
Muslim minority provinces of India, 55–56
Muslims–Hindu divide in India, 57–58
Naey Loug (New People), 50
NAP, 60
Nation-class, 168
National bourgeoisie, 23
National contradiction, 59
National liberation, 167
National Students Federation (NSF), 60
National Students Organization (NSO), 50
Navyug (Communist literary journal), 4–5
Naxal Movement, 12–13
in India, 49
Nazism, 52
Neo-imperialism, 39
Neocolonialism, 12–13, 48, 52
New International Economic Order (NIEO), 125
Newly independent countries (NICs), 12–13, 48
Non-Aligned Movement, 59
Non-settler colonialism, 21
Nongovernmental organization (NGO), 79
One Unit Scheme, 78–79
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 184
Paddy Lands Act of 1957, 23–24, 138
Pakistan, 30, 48
as “failed nation” or problems of failed nation-building project, 53–62
contours of emergence of postcolonial theory in, 62–70
feminist scholarship in, 76–77
poverty of feminist theory in, 77–82
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), 50–51
Pakistan Trade Union Federation (PTUF), 5–6
Pakistani Left, 57
Parti Communiste de l’Inde Française (PCIF), 154–155
Participative Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA), 24
Passive revolution, 36, 122–123
Peace dividend, 124
Peasantry, 40
Perfume ball, 105
Peripheral capitalism, 31–32
Permanent Settlement law in Bengal, 58
Pessimism, 65
Plantations, 20–21
Plurality, 36
Pluralizing class, 127–128
Poems of resistance, 190
eulogy, 192
Salman Haider, 195–196
secret passage, 193
story-teller’s dilemma, 195
Political activism, 107–108
Political Economy of Underdevelopment, The
, 20
Political forces, 59–60
Political horizon, 147–149
Political protests, 76
Political regime, 135–136
Political response in Sri Lanka, 133–135
Politics of sport, 104–109
Portuguese Empire, 154
Portuguese India, 155–157
Post-colonial countries, 19–20
Post-colonial developmentalism, 39
Post-colonial political economy, 2
Post-colonial position, 2
Post-colonial social formation, 31–32
Post-colonial theory, 12–13, 48–49, 51–52, 62, 70
Postcolonial confusion, 60–62
Postcolonial critique, 49
Postcolonial feminism, 80
Postcolonial feminists, 82
Postcolonial nation-building in Pakistan, 56–60
Poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives (2017), 76
as archive, 82–84
Progressive Writers Association (PWA), 54, 64
Provincialism, 30–31
Psychoanalysis of metaphors, 66
Public libraries, 160–161
Punjab Communist Party, 5–6
Qaidyani Ji Diary
, 83
Qool-o-Qarar (Giving Consent), 63
Quasi-Weberian flirtation, 35
Race, 184
Racial capitalism, 2
Ramjanmabhumi movement, 113
Ranadive Line, 7
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 113
Regime of accumulation, 135–136
Resistance in meantime, 128–129
Revisionist revolutionaries, 60
Revolts, 122
Revolution, 91, 95, 146–147
in meantime, 128–129
Rowmari Garden Uprising in 1903, 2–3
Ruling class reaction and struggle, 139–140
S.B.D. de Silva, 19–20
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
“Secular-liberal-left” politics, 80–81
Self-consciousness, 63
Self-indulgence, 64–65
Self-sufficiency, 125
Settler colonialism, 21
Shafi League, 56
Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality), 63
Shock, 113
Sindh, 76–77
Sindhiani Tehreek
, 83
Sindhiani Tehrik
, 78–79
Socialism, 23–24
Socialist Party of French India, 162
Solidarity, 94
South Asia, 1–3, 154
Marxist theorizing from, 8–11
Soviet power, 26–27
Sri Lanka, 122
conceptual framework, 125–129
crisis, 122–125
critique of political economy, 140–146
economic breakdown and political response in, 133–135
external and internal dimensions, 129–135
future directions, 146–149
relations between state and society, 135–140
trajectory within global order, 123–125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), 136–137
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), 123
State, 30
regime, 135–136
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), 124
Student Federation of India (SFI), 181–182
Style, 105
Subaltern Studies in India, 52
Suppression, 122–123
Tashkent Declaration, 60
Tebbit Test, 103–104
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986), 164–166
Trade unions, 160, 168
Traditional Left, 53–54
Tribal channels, 168
Trickster, 108
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature, 23
United Front (UF), 138
United National Party (UNP), 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 24
War on Terror, 53
West Indian renaissance, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF), 78–79
Working people, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime, 138–139
World Bank, 79
World-historical figures, 109
World-systems analysis, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
Capitalism
, 2, 23, 131–132, 143–144
Capitalist exploitation
, 77–78
Carnation Revolution
, 171
Caste
, 5
Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA)
, 165–166
Ceylon Communist Party
, 24
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation
, 24
City
, 24
Class
, 31, 185–186
class-caste struggle
, 163
solidarity
, 41
Class struggles
, 126, 163
in theory
, 68–69
CLR James
, 100
Co-optation
, 122–123, 134
Collective consciousness
, 65
Colonial roots of postcolonial confusion
, 54–56
Colonial social formation
, 31–32
Colonial-fascism
, 172–176
Colonial-fascist regime
, 172
Colonialism
, 21
Combat
, 161–162
Commodification of body
, 84–87
Communalism
, 55
Communism
, 181–182, 184
Communist Manifesto
, 181–182
Communist Party (CP)
, 138
Communist Party of Ceylon (CPSL)
, 6–7
Communist Party of India (CPI)
, 3–4, 48, 56, 181–182
Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT)
, 159
Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas (CONCP)
, 165
Conjunctural awareness
, 41–43
Country
, 24
Cricket
, 100–102, 106
Cricket watchers
, 105
Crisis, image of
, 122–125
Cultural centres
, 160–161
Cultural Marxism
, 52
Dalit
, 163–164
Decolonization
, 84–85
Defeatism
, 65
Défice científico do colonizador
, 170
Dependency theory
, 12–13, 48, 52
Desertion
, 2–3
Development
, 19–20
Diagnostic of power
, 80–81
Dialectics
of form and content
, 69–70
of individual freedom and submission to collectivism
, 66–68
Dictatorship
, 37–38
Disciplined spontaneity
, 110
Dispossession
, 131
Domestic elites
, 125
Domestic manufacturing
, 133
Economic breakdown in Sri Lanka, 133–135
Electrification, 26–27
Elites, 125
Empire, 154
Epistemology of resistance, 188
Estado Novo
, 155–156
Ethnic consciousness, 168
Ethnicity, 35–36
Eventual liberation, 77–78
Expansive love, 89
Exploitation, 77–78
Failed nation-building project, 53–62
Fascism, 52
Female friendships, 76–77
Feminist scholarship in Pakistan, 76–77
Feudal system, 86
Feudalism, 61
Financialization, 124–125, 131, 133
Fiscal consolidation, 131
Free Trade Zones (FTZs), 130
French Empire, 154
French India, 157–158
Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), 154–155, 171
G.V.S. de Silva, 19–20
Gandhian Freedom Movement, 158
Gender, 184
Géo Gras Group, 161–162
Geopolitical polarization, 125–126
German Ideology, The
, 184–185
Ghazal (lyrical poem), 69–70
Global capitalism, 130
Global unraveling, 125–126
GotaGoHome, 134
Great Hartal of 1953, 122, 136, 138
Great Revolt, 122–123
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 133
Halqa-e-Arabab-e-Zooq
, 64–65
Hamza Alavi, 30
conjunctural awareness, 41–43
peasantry and revolution, 38–41
post-colonial state and related concerns, 31–38
Heer Waris Shah
, 66
Hegemony, 33
Heretical Thoughts, 24–26
Himani Bannerji, interview with, 181–182
Hindu nationalism, 13–14, 101–102
Holy Family, The
, 184–185
Housewifization, 81, 86
Ideology, 184–185
Imperialism, 8, 22, 170
Import Substitution Industrialisation (ISI), 39
Independence of Bangladesh, 60–62
Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), 181–182
Indigenous bourgeoisie, 31–32
Industrial Development Board, 24
Industrialization, 131–133
Inquilab (Urdu-language newspaper), 4–5
Institutional materiality, 37
Interlocking oppressions, 42
Intermediate regime, 136–138
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), 136
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 79, 123
International Sovereign Bonds (ISBs), 124–125
Internationalist anti-imperialist marxism, 167–172
Islamization, 78–79
Jallianwala Bagh massacre, 158
Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), 50, 59–60
Jinnah League, 56
Karo Kari
, 90
Khawateen Mahaz-e-Amal, 78–79
Khoti
, 10
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), 58
Krishak Praja Party, 56
Labor inside and outside capitalist wage relations, 142–143
Labour Advisory Boards, 4
Labour uprisings, 2–3
Landowning class, 31–32
Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), 6–7, 135–136
Left liberal historiography, 54
Left politics, 50
Leftist newspaper offices, 160–161
Liberal discourses, 49
Liberal feminists, 81
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), 124
Longue Durée Origins of the Present Crisis
, 129–131
Love, 91–95
Lucknow Pact, 55–56
Lusotropicalism, 155–156
Madras Labour Union, 3
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), 23–24
Mardangi ki Nafsiat aur Inqalabi Amal (Psychology of Masculinity and Revolutionary Activism), 68–69
Marxism, 1–2, 19–20, 52, 154–155, 181–182
British rule, 2–5
after independence, 5–8
issue, 11–16
Marxist aesthetics, 101
Marxist feminism, 76
commodification of body, 84–87
love and revolution, 91–95
murder, 87–91
poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives as archive, 82–84
Marxist Feminists, 77–78
Marxist theorizing from South Asia, 8–11
Masculinity, 68–69
Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP), 60
Metropolitan bourgeoisie, 31–32
Miar-e-Zindagi aur Aazadi (Standard/Quality of Life and Freedom), 67
Military dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq, 78–79
Mirror of Class, The (1989), 185–186
Mohammed Azharuddin, 100
aesthetics of cricket; politics of sport, 104–109
recording of Azharuddin’s memory, 102–104
shocker!, 112–115
with willow, 109–112
Mojuda Soort-e-Hal aur Adab (Current Situation and Literature), 68
Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD), 83
Movimento Anti-colonialista (MAC), 165
Muhajir ethnicity, 35–36
Multitude, 127
Murda Muashray Ki Zindagi (Life of a Dead Society), 66–67
Murder, 87–91
Murdering, 87–88
Muslim feminity, 79–80
Muslim League (ML), 55
Muslim minority provinces of India, 55–56
Muslims–Hindu divide in India, 57–58
Naey Loug (New People), 50
NAP, 60
Nation-class, 168
National bourgeoisie, 23
National contradiction, 59
National liberation, 167
National Students Federation (NSF), 60
National Students Organization (NSO), 50
Navyug (Communist literary journal), 4–5
Naxal Movement, 12–13
in India, 49
Nazism, 52
Neo-imperialism, 39
Neocolonialism, 12–13, 48, 52
New International Economic Order (NIEO), 125
Newly independent countries (NICs), 12–13, 48
Non-Aligned Movement, 59
Non-settler colonialism, 21
Nongovernmental organization (NGO), 79
One Unit Scheme, 78–79
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 184
Paddy Lands Act of 1957, 23–24, 138
Pakistan, 30, 48
as “failed nation” or problems of failed nation-building project, 53–62
contours of emergence of postcolonial theory in, 62–70
feminist scholarship in, 76–77
poverty of feminist theory in, 77–82
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), 50–51
Pakistan Trade Union Federation (PTUF), 5–6
Pakistani Left, 57
Parti Communiste de l’Inde Française (PCIF), 154–155
Participative Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA), 24
Passive revolution, 36, 122–123
Peace dividend, 124
Peasantry, 40
Perfume ball, 105
Peripheral capitalism, 31–32
Permanent Settlement law in Bengal, 58
Pessimism, 65
Plantations, 20–21
Plurality, 36
Pluralizing class, 127–128
Poems of resistance, 190
eulogy, 192
Salman Haider, 195–196
secret passage, 193
story-teller’s dilemma, 195
Political activism, 107–108
Political Economy of Underdevelopment, The
, 20
Political forces, 59–60
Political horizon, 147–149
Political protests, 76
Political regime, 135–136
Political response in Sri Lanka, 133–135
Politics of sport, 104–109
Portuguese Empire, 154
Portuguese India, 155–157
Post-colonial countries, 19–20
Post-colonial developmentalism, 39
Post-colonial political economy, 2
Post-colonial position, 2
Post-colonial social formation, 31–32
Post-colonial theory, 12–13, 48–49, 51–52, 62, 70
Postcolonial confusion, 60–62
Postcolonial critique, 49
Postcolonial feminism, 80
Postcolonial feminists, 82
Postcolonial nation-building in Pakistan, 56–60
Poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives (2017), 76
as archive, 82–84
Progressive Writers Association (PWA), 54, 64
Provincialism, 30–31
Psychoanalysis of metaphors, 66
Public libraries, 160–161
Punjab Communist Party, 5–6
Qaidyani Ji Diary
, 83
Qool-o-Qarar (Giving Consent), 63
Quasi-Weberian flirtation, 35
Race, 184
Racial capitalism, 2
Ramjanmabhumi movement, 113
Ranadive Line, 7
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 113
Regime of accumulation, 135–136
Resistance in meantime, 128–129
Revisionist revolutionaries, 60
Revolts, 122
Revolution, 91, 95, 146–147
in meantime, 128–129
Rowmari Garden Uprising in 1903, 2–3
Ruling class reaction and struggle, 139–140
S.B.D. de Silva, 19–20
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
“Secular-liberal-left” politics, 80–81
Self-consciousness, 63
Self-indulgence, 64–65
Self-sufficiency, 125
Settler colonialism, 21
Shafi League, 56
Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality), 63
Shock, 113
Sindh, 76–77
Sindhiani Tehreek
, 83
Sindhiani Tehrik
, 78–79
Socialism, 23–24
Socialist Party of French India, 162
Solidarity, 94
South Asia, 1–3, 154
Marxist theorizing from, 8–11
Soviet power, 26–27
Sri Lanka, 122
conceptual framework, 125–129
crisis, 122–125
critique of political economy, 140–146
economic breakdown and political response in, 133–135
external and internal dimensions, 129–135
future directions, 146–149
relations between state and society, 135–140
trajectory within global order, 123–125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), 136–137
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), 123
State, 30
regime, 135–136
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), 124
Student Federation of India (SFI), 181–182
Style, 105
Subaltern Studies in India, 52
Suppression, 122–123
Tashkent Declaration, 60
Tebbit Test, 103–104
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986), 164–166
Trade unions, 160, 168
Traditional Left, 53–54
Tribal channels, 168
Trickster, 108
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature, 23
United Front (UF), 138
United National Party (UNP), 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 24
War on Terror, 53
West Indian renaissance, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF), 78–79
Working people, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime, 138–139
World Bank, 79
World-historical figures, 109
World-systems analysis, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
Economic breakdown in Sri Lanka
, 133–135
Electrification
, 26–27
Elites
, 125
Empire
, 154
Epistemology of resistance
, 188
Estado Novo
, 155–156
Ethnic consciousness
, 168
Ethnicity
, 35–36
Eventual liberation
, 77–78
Expansive love
, 89
Exploitation
, 77–78
Failed nation-building project
, 53–62
Fascism
, 52
Female friendships
, 76–77
Feminist scholarship in Pakistan
, 76–77
Feudal system
, 86
Feudalism
, 61
Financialization
, 124–125, 131, 133
Fiscal consolidation
, 131
Free Trade Zones (FTZs)
, 130
French Empire
, 154
French India
, 157–158
Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO)
, 154–155, 171
G.V.S. de Silva, 19–20
Gandhian Freedom Movement, 158
Gender, 184
Géo Gras Group, 161–162
Geopolitical polarization, 125–126
German Ideology, The
, 184–185
Ghazal (lyrical poem), 69–70
Global capitalism, 130
Global unraveling, 125–126
GotaGoHome, 134
Great Hartal of 1953, 122, 136, 138
Great Revolt, 122–123
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 133
Halqa-e-Arabab-e-Zooq
, 64–65
Hamza Alavi, 30
conjunctural awareness, 41–43
peasantry and revolution, 38–41
post-colonial state and related concerns, 31–38
Heer Waris Shah
, 66
Hegemony, 33
Heretical Thoughts, 24–26
Himani Bannerji, interview with, 181–182
Hindu nationalism, 13–14, 101–102
Holy Family, The
, 184–185
Housewifization, 81, 86
Ideology, 184–185
Imperialism, 8, 22, 170
Import Substitution Industrialisation (ISI), 39
Independence of Bangladesh, 60–62
Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), 181–182
Indigenous bourgeoisie, 31–32
Industrial Development Board, 24
Industrialization, 131–133
Inquilab (Urdu-language newspaper), 4–5
Institutional materiality, 37
Interlocking oppressions, 42
Intermediate regime, 136–138
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), 136
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 79, 123
International Sovereign Bonds (ISBs), 124–125
Internationalist anti-imperialist marxism, 167–172
Islamization, 78–79
Jallianwala Bagh massacre, 158
Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), 50, 59–60
Jinnah League, 56
Karo Kari
, 90
Khawateen Mahaz-e-Amal, 78–79
Khoti
, 10
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), 58
Krishak Praja Party, 56
Labor inside and outside capitalist wage relations, 142–143
Labour Advisory Boards, 4
Labour uprisings, 2–3
Landowning class, 31–32
Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), 6–7, 135–136
Left liberal historiography, 54
Left politics, 50
Leftist newspaper offices, 160–161
Liberal discourses, 49
Liberal feminists, 81
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), 124
Longue Durée Origins of the Present Crisis
, 129–131
Love, 91–95
Lucknow Pact, 55–56
Lusotropicalism, 155–156
Madras Labour Union, 3
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), 23–24
Mardangi ki Nafsiat aur Inqalabi Amal (Psychology of Masculinity and Revolutionary Activism), 68–69
Marxism, 1–2, 19–20, 52, 154–155, 181–182
British rule, 2–5
after independence, 5–8
issue, 11–16
Marxist aesthetics, 101
Marxist feminism, 76
commodification of body, 84–87
love and revolution, 91–95
murder, 87–91
poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives as archive, 82–84
Marxist Feminists, 77–78
Marxist theorizing from South Asia, 8–11
Masculinity, 68–69
Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP), 60
Metropolitan bourgeoisie, 31–32
Miar-e-Zindagi aur Aazadi (Standard/Quality of Life and Freedom), 67
Military dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq, 78–79
Mirror of Class, The (1989), 185–186
Mohammed Azharuddin, 100
aesthetics of cricket; politics of sport, 104–109
recording of Azharuddin’s memory, 102–104
shocker!, 112–115
with willow, 109–112
Mojuda Soort-e-Hal aur Adab (Current Situation and Literature), 68
Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD), 83
Movimento Anti-colonialista (MAC), 165
Muhajir ethnicity, 35–36
Multitude, 127
Murda Muashray Ki Zindagi (Life of a Dead Society), 66–67
Murder, 87–91
Murdering, 87–88
Muslim feminity, 79–80
Muslim League (ML), 55
Muslim minority provinces of India, 55–56
Muslims–Hindu divide in India, 57–58
Naey Loug (New People), 50
NAP, 60
Nation-class, 168
National bourgeoisie, 23
National contradiction, 59
National liberation, 167
National Students Federation (NSF), 60
National Students Organization (NSO), 50
Navyug (Communist literary journal), 4–5
Naxal Movement, 12–13
in India, 49
Nazism, 52
Neo-imperialism, 39
Neocolonialism, 12–13, 48, 52
New International Economic Order (NIEO), 125
Newly independent countries (NICs), 12–13, 48
Non-Aligned Movement, 59
Non-settler colonialism, 21
Nongovernmental organization (NGO), 79
One Unit Scheme, 78–79
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 184
Paddy Lands Act of 1957, 23–24, 138
Pakistan, 30, 48
as “failed nation” or problems of failed nation-building project, 53–62
contours of emergence of postcolonial theory in, 62–70
feminist scholarship in, 76–77
poverty of feminist theory in, 77–82
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), 50–51
Pakistan Trade Union Federation (PTUF), 5–6
Pakistani Left, 57
Parti Communiste de l’Inde Française (PCIF), 154–155
Participative Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA), 24
Passive revolution, 36, 122–123
Peace dividend, 124
Peasantry, 40
Perfume ball, 105
Peripheral capitalism, 31–32
Permanent Settlement law in Bengal, 58
Pessimism, 65
Plantations, 20–21
Plurality, 36
Pluralizing class, 127–128
Poems of resistance, 190
eulogy, 192
Salman Haider, 195–196
secret passage, 193
story-teller’s dilemma, 195
Political activism, 107–108
Political Economy of Underdevelopment, The
, 20
Political forces, 59–60
Political horizon, 147–149
Political protests, 76
Political regime, 135–136
Political response in Sri Lanka, 133–135
Politics of sport, 104–109
Portuguese Empire, 154
Portuguese India, 155–157
Post-colonial countries, 19–20
Post-colonial developmentalism, 39
Post-colonial political economy, 2
Post-colonial position, 2
Post-colonial social formation, 31–32
Post-colonial theory, 12–13, 48–49, 51–52, 62, 70
Postcolonial confusion, 60–62
Postcolonial critique, 49
Postcolonial feminism, 80
Postcolonial feminists, 82
Postcolonial nation-building in Pakistan, 56–60
Poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives (2017), 76
as archive, 82–84
Progressive Writers Association (PWA), 54, 64
Provincialism, 30–31
Psychoanalysis of metaphors, 66
Public libraries, 160–161
Punjab Communist Party, 5–6
Qaidyani Ji Diary
, 83
Qool-o-Qarar (Giving Consent), 63
Quasi-Weberian flirtation, 35
Race, 184
Racial capitalism, 2
Ramjanmabhumi movement, 113
Ranadive Line, 7
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 113
Regime of accumulation, 135–136
Resistance in meantime, 128–129
Revisionist revolutionaries, 60
Revolts, 122
Revolution, 91, 95, 146–147
in meantime, 128–129
Rowmari Garden Uprising in 1903, 2–3
Ruling class reaction and struggle, 139–140
S.B.D. de Silva, 19–20
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
“Secular-liberal-left” politics, 80–81
Self-consciousness, 63
Self-indulgence, 64–65
Self-sufficiency, 125
Settler colonialism, 21
Shafi League, 56
Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality), 63
Shock, 113
Sindh, 76–77
Sindhiani Tehreek
, 83
Sindhiani Tehrik
, 78–79
Socialism, 23–24
Socialist Party of French India, 162
Solidarity, 94
South Asia, 1–3, 154
Marxist theorizing from, 8–11
Soviet power, 26–27
Sri Lanka, 122
conceptual framework, 125–129
crisis, 122–125
critique of political economy, 140–146
economic breakdown and political response in, 133–135
external and internal dimensions, 129–135
future directions, 146–149
relations between state and society, 135–140
trajectory within global order, 123–125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), 136–137
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), 123
State, 30
regime, 135–136
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), 124
Student Federation of India (SFI), 181–182
Style, 105
Subaltern Studies in India, 52
Suppression, 122–123
Tashkent Declaration, 60
Tebbit Test, 103–104
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986), 164–166
Trade unions, 160, 168
Traditional Left, 53–54
Tribal channels, 168
Trickster, 108
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature, 23
United Front (UF), 138
United National Party (UNP), 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 24
War on Terror, 53
West Indian renaissance, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF), 78–79
Working people, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime, 138–139
World Bank, 79
World-historical figures, 109
World-systems analysis, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
G.V.S. de Silva
, 19–20
Gandhian Freedom Movement
, 158
Gender
, 184
Géo Gras Group
, 161–162
Geopolitical polarization
, 125–126
German Ideology, The
, 184–185
Ghazal (lyrical poem)
, 69–70
Global capitalism
, 130
Global unraveling
, 125–126
GotaGoHome
, 134
Great Hartal of 1953
, 122, 136, 138
Great Revolt
, 122–123
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
, 133
Halqa-e-Arabab-e-Zooq
, 64–65
Hamza Alavi
, 30
conjunctural awareness
, 41–43
peasantry and revolution
, 38–41
post-colonial state and related concerns
, 31–38
Heer Waris Shah
, 66
Hegemony
, 33
Heretical Thoughts
, 24–26
Himani Bannerji, interview with
, 181–182
Hindu nationalism
, 13–14, 101–102
Holy Family, The
, 184–185
Housewifization
, 81, 86
Ideology, 184–185
Imperialism, 8, 22, 170
Import Substitution Industrialisation (ISI), 39
Independence of Bangladesh, 60–62
Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), 181–182
Indigenous bourgeoisie, 31–32
Industrial Development Board, 24
Industrialization, 131–133
Inquilab (Urdu-language newspaper), 4–5
Institutional materiality, 37
Interlocking oppressions, 42
Intermediate regime, 136–138
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), 136
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 79, 123
International Sovereign Bonds (ISBs), 124–125
Internationalist anti-imperialist marxism, 167–172
Islamization, 78–79
Jallianwala Bagh massacre, 158
Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), 50, 59–60
Jinnah League, 56
Karo Kari
, 90
Khawateen Mahaz-e-Amal, 78–79
Khoti
, 10
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), 58
Krishak Praja Party, 56
Labor inside and outside capitalist wage relations, 142–143
Labour Advisory Boards, 4
Labour uprisings, 2–3
Landowning class, 31–32
Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), 6–7, 135–136
Left liberal historiography, 54
Left politics, 50
Leftist newspaper offices, 160–161
Liberal discourses, 49
Liberal feminists, 81
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), 124
Longue Durée Origins of the Present Crisis
, 129–131
Love, 91–95
Lucknow Pact, 55–56
Lusotropicalism, 155–156
Madras Labour Union, 3
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), 23–24
Mardangi ki Nafsiat aur Inqalabi Amal (Psychology of Masculinity and Revolutionary Activism), 68–69
Marxism, 1–2, 19–20, 52, 154–155, 181–182
British rule, 2–5
after independence, 5–8
issue, 11–16
Marxist aesthetics, 101
Marxist feminism, 76
commodification of body, 84–87
love and revolution, 91–95
murder, 87–91
poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives as archive, 82–84
Marxist Feminists, 77–78
Marxist theorizing from South Asia, 8–11
Masculinity, 68–69
Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP), 60
Metropolitan bourgeoisie, 31–32
Miar-e-Zindagi aur Aazadi (Standard/Quality of Life and Freedom), 67
Military dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq, 78–79
Mirror of Class, The (1989), 185–186
Mohammed Azharuddin, 100
aesthetics of cricket; politics of sport, 104–109
recording of Azharuddin’s memory, 102–104
shocker!, 112–115
with willow, 109–112
Mojuda Soort-e-Hal aur Adab (Current Situation and Literature), 68
Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD), 83
Movimento Anti-colonialista (MAC), 165
Muhajir ethnicity, 35–36
Multitude, 127
Murda Muashray Ki Zindagi (Life of a Dead Society), 66–67
Murder, 87–91
Murdering, 87–88
Muslim feminity, 79–80
Muslim League (ML), 55
Muslim minority provinces of India, 55–56
Muslims–Hindu divide in India, 57–58
Naey Loug (New People), 50
NAP, 60
Nation-class, 168
National bourgeoisie, 23
National contradiction, 59
National liberation, 167
National Students Federation (NSF), 60
National Students Organization (NSO), 50
Navyug (Communist literary journal), 4–5
Naxal Movement, 12–13
in India, 49
Nazism, 52
Neo-imperialism, 39
Neocolonialism, 12–13, 48, 52
New International Economic Order (NIEO), 125
Newly independent countries (NICs), 12–13, 48
Non-Aligned Movement, 59
Non-settler colonialism, 21
Nongovernmental organization (NGO), 79
One Unit Scheme, 78–79
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 184
Paddy Lands Act of 1957, 23–24, 138
Pakistan, 30, 48
as “failed nation” or problems of failed nation-building project, 53–62
contours of emergence of postcolonial theory in, 62–70
feminist scholarship in, 76–77
poverty of feminist theory in, 77–82
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), 50–51
Pakistan Trade Union Federation (PTUF), 5–6
Pakistani Left, 57
Parti Communiste de l’Inde Française (PCIF), 154–155
Participative Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA), 24
Passive revolution, 36, 122–123
Peace dividend, 124
Peasantry, 40
Perfume ball, 105
Peripheral capitalism, 31–32
Permanent Settlement law in Bengal, 58
Pessimism, 65
Plantations, 20–21
Plurality, 36
Pluralizing class, 127–128
Poems of resistance, 190
eulogy, 192
Salman Haider, 195–196
secret passage, 193
story-teller’s dilemma, 195
Political activism, 107–108
Political Economy of Underdevelopment, The
, 20
Political forces, 59–60
Political horizon, 147–149
Political protests, 76
Political regime, 135–136
Political response in Sri Lanka, 133–135
Politics of sport, 104–109
Portuguese Empire, 154
Portuguese India, 155–157
Post-colonial countries, 19–20
Post-colonial developmentalism, 39
Post-colonial political economy, 2
Post-colonial position, 2
Post-colonial social formation, 31–32
Post-colonial theory, 12–13, 48–49, 51–52, 62, 70
Postcolonial confusion, 60–62
Postcolonial critique, 49
Postcolonial feminism, 80
Postcolonial feminists, 82
Postcolonial nation-building in Pakistan, 56–60
Poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives (2017), 76
as archive, 82–84
Progressive Writers Association (PWA), 54, 64
Provincialism, 30–31
Psychoanalysis of metaphors, 66
Public libraries, 160–161
Punjab Communist Party, 5–6
Qaidyani Ji Diary
, 83
Qool-o-Qarar (Giving Consent), 63
Quasi-Weberian flirtation, 35
Race, 184
Racial capitalism, 2
Ramjanmabhumi movement, 113
Ranadive Line, 7
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 113
Regime of accumulation, 135–136
Resistance in meantime, 128–129
Revisionist revolutionaries, 60
Revolts, 122
Revolution, 91, 95, 146–147
in meantime, 128–129
Rowmari Garden Uprising in 1903, 2–3
Ruling class reaction and struggle, 139–140
S.B.D. de Silva, 19–20
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
“Secular-liberal-left” politics, 80–81
Self-consciousness, 63
Self-indulgence, 64–65
Self-sufficiency, 125
Settler colonialism, 21
Shafi League, 56
Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality), 63
Shock, 113
Sindh, 76–77
Sindhiani Tehreek
, 83
Sindhiani Tehrik
, 78–79
Socialism, 23–24
Socialist Party of French India, 162
Solidarity, 94
South Asia, 1–3, 154
Marxist theorizing from, 8–11
Soviet power, 26–27
Sri Lanka, 122
conceptual framework, 125–129
crisis, 122–125
critique of political economy, 140–146
economic breakdown and political response in, 133–135
external and internal dimensions, 129–135
future directions, 146–149
relations between state and society, 135–140
trajectory within global order, 123–125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), 136–137
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), 123
State, 30
regime, 135–136
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), 124
Student Federation of India (SFI), 181–182
Style, 105
Subaltern Studies in India, 52
Suppression, 122–123
Tashkent Declaration, 60
Tebbit Test, 103–104
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986), 164–166
Trade unions, 160, 168
Traditional Left, 53–54
Tribal channels, 168
Trickster, 108
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature, 23
United Front (UF), 138
United National Party (UNP), 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 24
War on Terror, 53
West Indian renaissance, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF), 78–79
Working people, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime, 138–139
World Bank, 79
World-historical figures, 109
World-systems analysis, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
Ideology
, 184–185
Imperialism
, 8, 22, 170
Import Substitution Industrialisation (ISI)
, 39
Independence of Bangladesh
, 60–62
Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)
, 181–182
Indigenous bourgeoisie
, 31–32
Industrial Development Board
, 24
Industrialization
, 131–133
Inquilab (Urdu-language newspaper)
, 4–5
Institutional materiality
, 37
Interlocking oppressions
, 42
Intermediate regime
, 136–138
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
, 136
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
, 79, 123
International Sovereign Bonds (ISBs)
, 124–125
Internationalist anti-imperialist marxism
, 167–172
Islamization
, 78–79
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
, 158
Jamaat-i-Islami (JI)
, 50, 59–60
Jinnah League
, 56
Karo Kari
, 90
Khawateen Mahaz-e-Amal, 78–79
Khoti
, 10
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), 58
Krishak Praja Party, 56
Labor inside and outside capitalist wage relations, 142–143
Labour Advisory Boards, 4
Labour uprisings, 2–3
Landowning class, 31–32
Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), 6–7, 135–136
Left liberal historiography, 54
Left politics, 50
Leftist newspaper offices, 160–161
Liberal discourses, 49
Liberal feminists, 81
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), 124
Longue Durée Origins of the Present Crisis
, 129–131
Love, 91–95
Lucknow Pact, 55–56
Lusotropicalism, 155–156
Madras Labour Union, 3
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), 23–24
Mardangi ki Nafsiat aur Inqalabi Amal (Psychology of Masculinity and Revolutionary Activism), 68–69
Marxism, 1–2, 19–20, 52, 154–155, 181–182
British rule, 2–5
after independence, 5–8
issue, 11–16
Marxist aesthetics, 101
Marxist feminism, 76
commodification of body, 84–87
love and revolution, 91–95
murder, 87–91
poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives as archive, 82–84
Marxist Feminists, 77–78
Marxist theorizing from South Asia, 8–11
Masculinity, 68–69
Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP), 60
Metropolitan bourgeoisie, 31–32
Miar-e-Zindagi aur Aazadi (Standard/Quality of Life and Freedom), 67
Military dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq, 78–79
Mirror of Class, The (1989), 185–186
Mohammed Azharuddin, 100
aesthetics of cricket; politics of sport, 104–109
recording of Azharuddin’s memory, 102–104
shocker!, 112–115
with willow, 109–112
Mojuda Soort-e-Hal aur Adab (Current Situation and Literature), 68
Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD), 83
Movimento Anti-colonialista (MAC), 165
Muhajir ethnicity, 35–36
Multitude, 127
Murda Muashray Ki Zindagi (Life of a Dead Society), 66–67
Murder, 87–91
Murdering, 87–88
Muslim feminity, 79–80
Muslim League (ML), 55
Muslim minority provinces of India, 55–56
Muslims–Hindu divide in India, 57–58
Naey Loug (New People), 50
NAP, 60
Nation-class, 168
National bourgeoisie, 23
National contradiction, 59
National liberation, 167
National Students Federation (NSF), 60
National Students Organization (NSO), 50
Navyug (Communist literary journal), 4–5
Naxal Movement, 12–13
in India, 49
Nazism, 52
Neo-imperialism, 39
Neocolonialism, 12–13, 48, 52
New International Economic Order (NIEO), 125
Newly independent countries (NICs), 12–13, 48
Non-Aligned Movement, 59
Non-settler colonialism, 21
Nongovernmental organization (NGO), 79
One Unit Scheme, 78–79
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 184
Paddy Lands Act of 1957, 23–24, 138
Pakistan, 30, 48
as “failed nation” or problems of failed nation-building project, 53–62
contours of emergence of postcolonial theory in, 62–70
feminist scholarship in, 76–77
poverty of feminist theory in, 77–82
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), 50–51
Pakistan Trade Union Federation (PTUF), 5–6
Pakistani Left, 57
Parti Communiste de l’Inde Française (PCIF), 154–155
Participative Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA), 24
Passive revolution, 36, 122–123
Peace dividend, 124
Peasantry, 40
Perfume ball, 105
Peripheral capitalism, 31–32
Permanent Settlement law in Bengal, 58
Pessimism, 65
Plantations, 20–21
Plurality, 36
Pluralizing class, 127–128
Poems of resistance, 190
eulogy, 192
Salman Haider, 195–196
secret passage, 193
story-teller’s dilemma, 195
Political activism, 107–108
Political Economy of Underdevelopment, The
, 20
Political forces, 59–60
Political horizon, 147–149
Political protests, 76
Political regime, 135–136
Political response in Sri Lanka, 133–135
Politics of sport, 104–109
Portuguese Empire, 154
Portuguese India, 155–157
Post-colonial countries, 19–20
Post-colonial developmentalism, 39
Post-colonial political economy, 2
Post-colonial position, 2
Post-colonial social formation, 31–32
Post-colonial theory, 12–13, 48–49, 51–52, 62, 70
Postcolonial confusion, 60–62
Postcolonial critique, 49
Postcolonial feminism, 80
Postcolonial feminists, 82
Postcolonial nation-building in Pakistan, 56–60
Poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives (2017), 76
as archive, 82–84
Progressive Writers Association (PWA), 54, 64
Provincialism, 30–31
Psychoanalysis of metaphors, 66
Public libraries, 160–161
Punjab Communist Party, 5–6
Qaidyani Ji Diary
, 83
Qool-o-Qarar (Giving Consent), 63
Quasi-Weberian flirtation, 35
Race, 184
Racial capitalism, 2
Ramjanmabhumi movement, 113
Ranadive Line, 7
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 113
Regime of accumulation, 135–136
Resistance in meantime, 128–129
Revisionist revolutionaries, 60
Revolts, 122
Revolution, 91, 95, 146–147
in meantime, 128–129
Rowmari Garden Uprising in 1903, 2–3
Ruling class reaction and struggle, 139–140
S.B.D. de Silva, 19–20
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
“Secular-liberal-left” politics, 80–81
Self-consciousness, 63
Self-indulgence, 64–65
Self-sufficiency, 125
Settler colonialism, 21
Shafi League, 56
Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality), 63
Shock, 113
Sindh, 76–77
Sindhiani Tehreek
, 83
Sindhiani Tehrik
, 78–79
Socialism, 23–24
Socialist Party of French India, 162
Solidarity, 94
South Asia, 1–3, 154
Marxist theorizing from, 8–11
Soviet power, 26–27
Sri Lanka, 122
conceptual framework, 125–129
crisis, 122–125
critique of political economy, 140–146
economic breakdown and political response in, 133–135
external and internal dimensions, 129–135
future directions, 146–149
relations between state and society, 135–140
trajectory within global order, 123–125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), 136–137
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), 123
State, 30
regime, 135–136
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), 124
Student Federation of India (SFI), 181–182
Style, 105
Subaltern Studies in India, 52
Suppression, 122–123
Tashkent Declaration, 60
Tebbit Test, 103–104
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986), 164–166
Trade unions, 160, 168
Traditional Left, 53–54
Tribal channels, 168
Trickster, 108
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature, 23
United Front (UF), 138
United National Party (UNP), 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 24
War on Terror, 53
West Indian renaissance, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF), 78–79
Working people, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime, 138–139
World Bank, 79
World-historical figures, 109
World-systems analysis, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
Karo Kari
, 90
Khawateen Mahaz-e-Amal
, 78–79
Khoti
, 10
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK)
, 58
Krishak Praja Party
, 56
Labor inside and outside capitalist wage relations
, 142–143
Labour Advisory Boards
, 4
Labour uprisings
, 2–3
Landowning class
, 31–32
Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP)
, 6–7, 135–136
Left liberal historiography
, 54
Left politics
, 50
Leftist newspaper offices
, 160–161
Liberal discourses
, 49
Liberal feminists
, 81
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
, 124
Longue Durée Origins of the Present Crisis
, 129–131
Love
, 91–95
Lucknow Pact
, 55–56
Lusotropicalism
, 155–156
Madras Labour Union, 3
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), 23–24
Mardangi ki Nafsiat aur Inqalabi Amal (Psychology of Masculinity and Revolutionary Activism), 68–69
Marxism, 1–2, 19–20, 52, 154–155, 181–182
British rule, 2–5
after independence, 5–8
issue, 11–16
Marxist aesthetics, 101
Marxist feminism, 76
commodification of body, 84–87
love and revolution, 91–95
murder, 87–91
poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives as archive, 82–84
Marxist Feminists, 77–78
Marxist theorizing from South Asia, 8–11
Masculinity, 68–69
Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP), 60
Metropolitan bourgeoisie, 31–32
Miar-e-Zindagi aur Aazadi (Standard/Quality of Life and Freedom), 67
Military dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq, 78–79
Mirror of Class, The (1989), 185–186
Mohammed Azharuddin, 100
aesthetics of cricket; politics of sport, 104–109
recording of Azharuddin’s memory, 102–104
shocker!, 112–115
with willow, 109–112
Mojuda Soort-e-Hal aur Adab (Current Situation and Literature), 68
Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD), 83
Movimento Anti-colonialista (MAC), 165
Muhajir ethnicity, 35–36
Multitude, 127
Murda Muashray Ki Zindagi (Life of a Dead Society), 66–67
Murder, 87–91
Murdering, 87–88
Muslim feminity, 79–80
Muslim League (ML), 55
Muslim minority provinces of India, 55–56
Muslims–Hindu divide in India, 57–58
Naey Loug (New People), 50
NAP, 60
Nation-class, 168
National bourgeoisie, 23
National contradiction, 59
National liberation, 167
National Students Federation (NSF), 60
National Students Organization (NSO), 50
Navyug (Communist literary journal), 4–5
Naxal Movement, 12–13
in India, 49
Nazism, 52
Neo-imperialism, 39
Neocolonialism, 12–13, 48, 52
New International Economic Order (NIEO), 125
Newly independent countries (NICs), 12–13, 48
Non-Aligned Movement, 59
Non-settler colonialism, 21
Nongovernmental organization (NGO), 79
One Unit Scheme, 78–79
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 184
Paddy Lands Act of 1957, 23–24, 138
Pakistan, 30, 48
as “failed nation” or problems of failed nation-building project, 53–62
contours of emergence of postcolonial theory in, 62–70
feminist scholarship in, 76–77
poverty of feminist theory in, 77–82
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), 50–51
Pakistan Trade Union Federation (PTUF), 5–6
Pakistani Left, 57
Parti Communiste de l’Inde Française (PCIF), 154–155
Participative Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA), 24
Passive revolution, 36, 122–123
Peace dividend, 124
Peasantry, 40
Perfume ball, 105
Peripheral capitalism, 31–32
Permanent Settlement law in Bengal, 58
Pessimism, 65
Plantations, 20–21
Plurality, 36
Pluralizing class, 127–128
Poems of resistance, 190
eulogy, 192
Salman Haider, 195–196
secret passage, 193
story-teller’s dilemma, 195
Political activism, 107–108
Political Economy of Underdevelopment, The
, 20
Political forces, 59–60
Political horizon, 147–149
Political protests, 76
Political regime, 135–136
Political response in Sri Lanka, 133–135
Politics of sport, 104–109
Portuguese Empire, 154
Portuguese India, 155–157
Post-colonial countries, 19–20
Post-colonial developmentalism, 39
Post-colonial political economy, 2
Post-colonial position, 2
Post-colonial social formation, 31–32
Post-colonial theory, 12–13, 48–49, 51–52, 62, 70
Postcolonial confusion, 60–62
Postcolonial critique, 49
Postcolonial feminism, 80
Postcolonial feminists, 82
Postcolonial nation-building in Pakistan, 56–60
Poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives (2017), 76
as archive, 82–84
Progressive Writers Association (PWA), 54, 64
Provincialism, 30–31
Psychoanalysis of metaphors, 66
Public libraries, 160–161
Punjab Communist Party, 5–6
Qaidyani Ji Diary
, 83
Qool-o-Qarar (Giving Consent), 63
Quasi-Weberian flirtation, 35
Race, 184
Racial capitalism, 2
Ramjanmabhumi movement, 113
Ranadive Line, 7
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 113
Regime of accumulation, 135–136
Resistance in meantime, 128–129
Revisionist revolutionaries, 60
Revolts, 122
Revolution, 91, 95, 146–147
in meantime, 128–129
Rowmari Garden Uprising in 1903, 2–3
Ruling class reaction and struggle, 139–140
S.B.D. de Silva, 19–20
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
“Secular-liberal-left” politics, 80–81
Self-consciousness, 63
Self-indulgence, 64–65
Self-sufficiency, 125
Settler colonialism, 21
Shafi League, 56
Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality), 63
Shock, 113
Sindh, 76–77
Sindhiani Tehreek
, 83
Sindhiani Tehrik
, 78–79
Socialism, 23–24
Socialist Party of French India, 162
Solidarity, 94
South Asia, 1–3, 154
Marxist theorizing from, 8–11
Soviet power, 26–27
Sri Lanka, 122
conceptual framework, 125–129
crisis, 122–125
critique of political economy, 140–146
economic breakdown and political response in, 133–135
external and internal dimensions, 129–135
future directions, 146–149
relations between state and society, 135–140
trajectory within global order, 123–125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), 136–137
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), 123
State, 30
regime, 135–136
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), 124
Student Federation of India (SFI), 181–182
Style, 105
Subaltern Studies in India, 52
Suppression, 122–123
Tashkent Declaration, 60
Tebbit Test, 103–104
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986), 164–166
Trade unions, 160, 168
Traditional Left, 53–54
Tribal channels, 168
Trickster, 108
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature, 23
United Front (UF), 138
United National Party (UNP), 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 24
War on Terror, 53
West Indian renaissance, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF), 78–79
Working people, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime, 138–139
World Bank, 79
World-historical figures, 109
World-systems analysis, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
Madras Labour Union
, 3
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP)
, 23–24
Mardangi ki Nafsiat aur Inqalabi Amal (Psychology of Masculinity and Revolutionary Activism)
, 68–69
Marxism
, 1–2, 19–20, 52, 154–155, 181–182
British rule
, 2–5
after independence
, 5–8
issue
, 11–16
Marxist aesthetics
, 101
Marxist feminism
, 76
commodification of body
, 84–87
love and revolution
, 91–95
murder
, 87–91
poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan
, 77–82
Prison Narratives as archive
, 82–84
Marxist Feminists
, 77–78
Marxist theorizing from South Asia
, 8–11
Masculinity
, 68–69
Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP)
, 60
Metropolitan bourgeoisie
, 31–32
Miar-e-Zindagi aur Aazadi (Standard/Quality of Life and Freedom)
, 67
Military dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq
, 78–79
Mirror of Class, The (1989)
, 185–186
Mohammed Azharuddin
, 100
aesthetics of cricket; politics of sport
, 104–109
recording of Azharuddin’s memory
, 102–104
shocker!
, 112–115
with willow
, 109–112
Mojuda Soort-e-Hal aur Adab (Current Situation and Literature)
, 68
Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD)
, 83
Movimento Anti-colonialista (MAC)
, 165
Muhajir ethnicity
, 35–36
Multitude
, 127
Murda Muashray Ki Zindagi (Life of a Dead Society)
, 66–67
Murder
, 87–91
Murdering
, 87–88
Muslim feminity
, 79–80
Muslim League (ML)
, 55
Muslim minority provinces of India
, 55–56
Muslims–Hindu divide in India
, 57–58
Naey Loug (New People)
, 50
NAP
, 60
Nation-class
, 168
National bourgeoisie
, 23
National contradiction
, 59
National liberation
, 167
National Students Federation (NSF)
, 60
National Students Organization (NSO)
, 50
Navyug (Communist literary journal)
, 4–5
Naxal Movement
, 12–13
in India
, 49
Nazism
, 52
Neo-imperialism
, 39
Neocolonialism
, 12–13, 48, 52
New International Economic Order (NIEO)
, 125
Newly independent countries (NICs)
, 12–13, 48
Non-Aligned Movement
, 59
Non-settler colonialism
, 21
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
, 79
One Unit Scheme, 78–79
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 184
Paddy Lands Act of 1957, 23–24, 138
Pakistan, 30, 48
as “failed nation” or problems of failed nation-building project, 53–62
contours of emergence of postcolonial theory in, 62–70
feminist scholarship in, 76–77
poverty of feminist theory in, 77–82
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), 50–51
Pakistan Trade Union Federation (PTUF), 5–6
Pakistani Left, 57
Parti Communiste de l’Inde Française (PCIF), 154–155
Participative Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA), 24
Passive revolution, 36, 122–123
Peace dividend, 124
Peasantry, 40
Perfume ball, 105
Peripheral capitalism, 31–32
Permanent Settlement law in Bengal, 58
Pessimism, 65
Plantations, 20–21
Plurality, 36
Pluralizing class, 127–128
Poems of resistance, 190
eulogy, 192
Salman Haider, 195–196
secret passage, 193
story-teller’s dilemma, 195
Political activism, 107–108
Political Economy of Underdevelopment, The
, 20
Political forces, 59–60
Political horizon, 147–149
Political protests, 76
Political regime, 135–136
Political response in Sri Lanka, 133–135
Politics of sport, 104–109
Portuguese Empire, 154
Portuguese India, 155–157
Post-colonial countries, 19–20
Post-colonial developmentalism, 39
Post-colonial political economy, 2
Post-colonial position, 2
Post-colonial social formation, 31–32
Post-colonial theory, 12–13, 48–49, 51–52, 62, 70
Postcolonial confusion, 60–62
Postcolonial critique, 49
Postcolonial feminism, 80
Postcolonial feminists, 82
Postcolonial nation-building in Pakistan, 56–60
Poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan, 77–82
Prison Narratives (2017), 76
as archive, 82–84
Progressive Writers Association (PWA), 54, 64
Provincialism, 30–31
Psychoanalysis of metaphors, 66
Public libraries, 160–161
Punjab Communist Party, 5–6
Qaidyani Ji Diary
, 83
Qool-o-Qarar (Giving Consent), 63
Quasi-Weberian flirtation, 35
Race, 184
Racial capitalism, 2
Ramjanmabhumi movement, 113
Ranadive Line, 7
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 113
Regime of accumulation, 135–136
Resistance in meantime, 128–129
Revisionist revolutionaries, 60
Revolts, 122
Revolution, 91, 95, 146–147
in meantime, 128–129
Rowmari Garden Uprising in 1903, 2–3
Ruling class reaction and struggle, 139–140
S.B.D. de Silva, 19–20
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
“Secular-liberal-left” politics, 80–81
Self-consciousness, 63
Self-indulgence, 64–65
Self-sufficiency, 125
Settler colonialism, 21
Shafi League, 56
Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality), 63
Shock, 113
Sindh, 76–77
Sindhiani Tehreek
, 83
Sindhiani Tehrik
, 78–79
Socialism, 23–24
Socialist Party of French India, 162
Solidarity, 94
South Asia, 1–3, 154
Marxist theorizing from, 8–11
Soviet power, 26–27
Sri Lanka, 122
conceptual framework, 125–129
crisis, 122–125
critique of political economy, 140–146
economic breakdown and political response in, 133–135
external and internal dimensions, 129–135
future directions, 146–149
relations between state and society, 135–140
trajectory within global order, 123–125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), 136–137
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), 123
State, 30
regime, 135–136
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), 124
Student Federation of India (SFI), 181–182
Style, 105
Subaltern Studies in India, 52
Suppression, 122–123
Tashkent Declaration, 60
Tebbit Test, 103–104
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986), 164–166
Trade unions, 160, 168
Traditional Left, 53–54
Tribal channels, 168
Trickster, 108
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature, 23
United Front (UF), 138
United National Party (UNP), 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 24
War on Terror, 53
West Indian renaissance, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF), 78–79
Working people, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime, 138–139
World Bank, 79
World-historical figures, 109
World-systems analysis, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
One Unit Scheme
, 78–79
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
, 184
Paddy Lands Act of 1957
, 23–24, 138
Pakistan
, 30, 48
as “failed nation” or problems of failed nation-building project
, 53–62
contours of emergence of postcolonial theory in
, 62–70
feminist scholarship in
, 76–77
poverty of feminist theory in
, 77–82
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP)
, 50–51
Pakistan Trade Union Federation (PTUF)
, 5–6
Pakistani Left
, 57
Parti Communiste de l’Inde Française (PCIF)
, 154–155
Participative Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA)
, 24
Passive revolution
, 36, 122–123
Peace dividend
, 124
Peasantry
, 40
Perfume ball
, 105
Peripheral capitalism
, 31–32
Permanent Settlement law in Bengal
, 58
Pessimism
, 65
Plantations
, 20–21
Plurality
, 36
Pluralizing class
, 127–128
Poems of resistance
, 190
eulogy
, 192
Salman Haider
, 195–196
secret passage
, 193
story-teller’s dilemma
, 195
Political activism
, 107–108
Political Economy of Underdevelopment, The
, 20
Political forces
, 59–60
Political horizon
, 147–149
Political protests
, 76
Political regime
, 135–136
Political response in Sri Lanka
, 133–135
Politics of sport
, 104–109
Portuguese Empire
, 154
Portuguese India
, 155–157
Post-colonial countries
, 19–20
Post-colonial developmentalism
, 39
Post-colonial political economy
, 2
Post-colonial position
, 2
Post-colonial social formation
, 31–32
Post-colonial theory
, 12–13, 48–49, 51–52, 62, 70
Postcolonial confusion
, 60–62
Postcolonial critique
, 49
Postcolonial feminism
, 80
Postcolonial feminists
, 82
Postcolonial nation-building in Pakistan
, 56–60
Poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan
, 77–82
Prison Narratives (2017)
, 76
as archive
, 82–84
Progressive Writers Association (PWA)
, 54, 64
Provincialism
, 30–31
Psychoanalysis of metaphors
, 66
Public libraries
, 160–161
Punjab Communist Party
, 5–6
Qaidyani Ji Diary
, 83
Qool-o-Qarar (Giving Consent), 63
Quasi-Weberian flirtation, 35
Race, 184
Racial capitalism, 2
Ramjanmabhumi movement, 113
Ranadive Line, 7
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 113
Regime of accumulation, 135–136
Resistance in meantime, 128–129
Revisionist revolutionaries, 60
Revolts, 122
Revolution, 91, 95, 146–147
in meantime, 128–129
Rowmari Garden Uprising in 1903, 2–3
Ruling class reaction and struggle, 139–140
S.B.D. de Silva, 19–20
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
“Secular-liberal-left” politics, 80–81
Self-consciousness, 63
Self-indulgence, 64–65
Self-sufficiency, 125
Settler colonialism, 21
Shafi League, 56
Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality), 63
Shock, 113
Sindh, 76–77
Sindhiani Tehreek
, 83
Sindhiani Tehrik
, 78–79
Socialism, 23–24
Socialist Party of French India, 162
Solidarity, 94
South Asia, 1–3, 154
Marxist theorizing from, 8–11
Soviet power, 26–27
Sri Lanka, 122
conceptual framework, 125–129
crisis, 122–125
critique of political economy, 140–146
economic breakdown and political response in, 133–135
external and internal dimensions, 129–135
future directions, 146–149
relations between state and society, 135–140
trajectory within global order, 123–125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), 136–137
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), 123
State, 30
regime, 135–136
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), 124
Student Federation of India (SFI), 181–182
Style, 105
Subaltern Studies in India, 52
Suppression, 122–123
Tashkent Declaration, 60
Tebbit Test, 103–104
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986), 164–166
Trade unions, 160, 168
Traditional Left, 53–54
Tribal channels, 168
Trickster, 108
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature, 23
United Front (UF), 138
United National Party (UNP), 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 24
War on Terror, 53
West Indian renaissance, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF), 78–79
Working people, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime, 138–139
World Bank, 79
World-historical figures, 109
World-systems analysis, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
Qaidyani Ji Diary
, 83
Qool-o-Qarar (Giving Consent)
, 63
Quasi-Weberian flirtation
, 35
Race
, 184
Racial capitalism
, 2
Ramjanmabhumi movement
, 113
Ranadive Line
, 7
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
, 113
Regime of accumulation
, 135–136
Resistance in meantime
, 128–129
Revisionist revolutionaries
, 60
Revolts
, 122
Revolution
, 91, 95, 146–147
in meantime
, 128–129
Rowmari Garden Uprising in 1903
, 2–3
Ruling class reaction and struggle
, 139–140
S.B.D. de Silva, 19–20
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
“Secular-liberal-left” politics, 80–81
Self-consciousness, 63
Self-indulgence, 64–65
Self-sufficiency, 125
Settler colonialism, 21
Shafi League, 56
Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality), 63
Shock, 113
Sindh, 76–77
Sindhiani Tehreek
, 83
Sindhiani Tehrik
, 78–79
Socialism, 23–24
Socialist Party of French India, 162
Solidarity, 94
South Asia, 1–3, 154
Marxist theorizing from, 8–11
Soviet power, 26–27
Sri Lanka, 122
conceptual framework, 125–129
crisis, 122–125
critique of political economy, 140–146
economic breakdown and political response in, 133–135
external and internal dimensions, 129–135
future directions, 146–149
relations between state and society, 135–140
trajectory within global order, 123–125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), 136–137
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), 123
State, 30
regime, 135–136
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), 124
Student Federation of India (SFI), 181–182
Style, 105
Subaltern Studies in India, 52
Suppression, 122–123
Tashkent Declaration, 60
Tebbit Test, 103–104
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986), 164–166
Trade unions, 160, 168
Traditional Left, 53–54
Tribal channels, 168
Trickster, 108
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature, 23
United Front (UF), 138
United National Party (UNP), 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 24
War on Terror, 53
West Indian renaissance, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF), 78–79
Working people, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime, 138–139
World Bank, 79
World-historical figures, 109
World-systems analysis, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
S.B.D. de Silva
, 19–20
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
“Secular-liberal-left” politics
, 80–81
Self-consciousness
, 63
Self-indulgence
, 64–65
Self-sufficiency
, 125
Settler colonialism
, 21
Shafi League
, 56
Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality)
, 63
Shock
, 113
Sindh
, 76–77
Sindhiani Tehreek
, 83
Sindhiani Tehrik
, 78–79
Socialism
, 23–24
Socialist Party of French India
, 162
Solidarity
, 94
South Asia
, 1–3, 154
Marxist theorizing from
, 8–11
Soviet power
, 26–27
Sri Lanka
, 122
conceptual framework
, 125–129
crisis
, 122–125
critique of political economy
, 140–146
economic breakdown and political response in
, 133–135
external and internal dimensions
, 129–135
future directions
, 146–149
relations between state and society
, 135–140
trajectory within global order
, 123–125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)
, 136–137
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP)
, 123
State
, 30
regime
, 135–136
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs)
, 124
Student Federation of India (SFI)
, 181–182
Style
, 105
Subaltern Studies in India
, 52
Suppression
, 122–123
Tashkent Declaration
, 60
Tebbit Test
, 103–104
Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986)
, 164–166
Trade unions
, 160, 168
Traditional Left
, 53–54
Tribal channels
, 168
Trickster
, 108
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature, 23
United Front (UF), 138
United National Party (UNP), 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), 24
War on Terror, 53
West Indian renaissance, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF), 78–79
Working people, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime, 138–139
World Bank, 79
World-historical figures, 109
World-systems analysis, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
Underdevelopment
, 20–22
prescriptive nature
, 23
United Front (UF)
, 138
United National Party (UNP)
, 123
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
, 24
War on Terror
, 53
West Indian renaissance
, 109
Women Action Forum (WAF)
, 78–79
Working people
, 127
resistance to Bonapartist regime
, 138–139
World Bank
, 79
World-historical figures
, 109
World-systems analysis
, 170
Young People’s Front (YPF), 50–51
Zamindars, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime, 80–81
Young People’s Front (YPF)
, 50–51
Zamindars
, 58
Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime
, 80–81
- Prelims
- Chapter 1 Marxist Theory Unbound: Global Perspectives From South Asia
- Chapter 2 The Anti-Imperialist Marxisms of SBD de Silva and GVS de Silva
- Chapter 3 Alavi Contra Alavi: Towards a Conjunctural Awareness
- Chapter 4 Mapping the Politics of Postcolonial Critique in Pakistan Through the Writings of Aziz-ul-Haq (1958–1972)
- Chapter 5 Murder as Praxis? Theorizing Marxist Feminism in Pakistan Through Akhtar Baloch's Prison Narratives
- Chapter 6 Mohammad Azharuddin as a Theorist of Shock: The Life of an Indian Muslim Cricket Captain in the Time of Hindu Nationalism
- Chapter 7 Crisis and Revolt in Sri Lanka: Theorizing a Horizon of Possibilities Amid the Unravelling of the Global Order
- Chapter 8 Anti-colonial Marxism in French and Portuguese India Compared: Varadarajulu Subbiah and Aquino de Bragança's Theories of Colonial Independence
- Chapter 9 Interview With Professor Himani Bannerji
- Chapter 10 Poems of Resistance
- Index