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

Prasanta Dhar

Presents the circulation of Marxism through Calcutta

Explores the way that Marxism was disseminated from one of India’s cultural and political centers

Examines one of the most global discourses of the twentieth century

Table of contents (6 chapters) Back Matter

Pages 181-205

About this book

This book examines the global circulation of Marxism seen from one of its most highly charged sites: Calcutta in India. Building on but also revising existing approaches to global intellectual history, the book presents the circulation of Marxism through Calcutta as a historically-sited problem of mass mediation. Using tools from media studies, the book explores the way that Marxism was presented to the public, the technologies used, and the meanings of Marxism in twentieth-century Calcutta. Demonstrating how the Popular Front was split between the so-called 'people's group' and those whom were called 'intellectuals', the book argues that the people's group generally identified themselves as Marxists and preferred audio-visual media such as theatre, while the so-called intellectuals privileged academic rigour and print media, usually referring to themselves as Marxians. Thus, the author reveals a polyphony of Marxisms in the Popular Front. Tracing Marxism back to the Bengal Renaissance and the Swadeshi and Naxal movements, this book shows how debate around the meaning of 'Marxism' continued throughout the 1970s in Calcutta, and eventually engendered the historiographical movement that has come to be known as Subaltern Studies. 

Keywords SocialismNationalismInternationalismDisseminationMarxistMarxianHistory of the mediaMass mediaPostcolonialismIndian RenaissanceSubalternCommunismSocialismIndian historyIndiaTwentieth Century Authors and Affiliations Toronto, Canada

Prasanta Dhar

About the author

Prasanta Dhar is a historian of South Asia and has taught at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Bibliographic Information

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

Authors: Prasanta Dhar

Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18617-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18616-5

eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18617-2

Series ISSN: 2524-7123

Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131

Edition Number: 1

Number of Pages: XIX, 205

Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

Topics: History of South Asia, Intellectual History, History of Philosophy, Political History, Media and Communication History, Cultural History

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