Author: Prakash Karat
Editor(s): Prakash Karat/Eric J Hobsbawm/Harvey J Kaye
Publisher: LeftWord
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 255
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187496347
Description
This volume is to honour Victor Kiernan, one of the most distinguished Marxist historians alive -a member, along with Eric Hobsbawm, of the famous British Communist Party Historians Group of the 1940s, consisting of E P Thompson, Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton, George Rude, A L Morton and others.
Kiernan, as Christopher Hill observed, is one of the most versatile of British historians, and his interests spread across time and continents. Reproduced here is a selection of Kiernan's historical writings of India, on the Urdu poets Faiz and Iqbal, and his reminiscences of his India years.
The volume also contains an appreciation of the historian and the man by Eric Hobsbawm; a lengthy study of Kiernan's work by Harvey J Kaye; and an Introduction by the editor.
REVIEW
In his career of enormous and, if anything, accelerating productivity ranging over centuries and continents Victor Kiernan has, so far as I am aware, no parallel among twentieth-century British historians.
-Eric Hobsbawm
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TRIBUATES TO VICTOR G KIERNAN
Understanding the Human Record
Victor Kiernan
Seeing things Historically
ESSAYS BY VICTOR G KIERNAN
Marx and India
Marx, Engels, and the Indian Mutiny
India and the Labour Party
After the Mu