This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia from the late 19th century to the 1930s. Contend

"This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s.

Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped the

Like other pre-colonial socio-economic formations, the profession of prostitution underwent a dramatic change in Bengal soon after the British take-over. Under

Increased flows of people, capital, and ideas across geographic borders raise urgent challenges to the existing terms and practices of politics. Comparative pol