Author: Iqbal Husain
Irfan Habib/Prabhat Patnaik
Editor(s): Iqbal Husain/ Irfan Habib/ Prabhat Patnaik
Publisher: Tulika
Year:
Language: English
Pages: 376
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8189487019
Description
Karl Marx’s articles in the New York Daily Tribune constitute a separate genre among his works, being originally published in English and based on events in various countries in the world. There is no doubt that the work Marx undertook for his Tribune articles not only influenced his later theoretical work (one major result being his incorporation of colonialism as a factor in the genesis and expansion of capitalism), but also gave him an opportunity to apply the general principles of his method of historical materialism to the study of complex circumstances prevalent in different parts of the world. The perception of pre-colonial and colonial India that he put forth in the Tribune is a classic product of such application.
The sheer boldness of Marx’s explanation of India’s pre-colonial ‘non-history’; the remarkable insight into the nature of colonial rule which made it so different from all previous conquests of the country; the lucidity of the exposition of the dialectics of colonial impact; the passionate sympathy for the suffering of the Indians, and, at the same time, the utterly dispassionate account of the historical course that opened up before the country, entirely independent of the will and consciousness of the colonial rulers themselves-all these combine to make the Tribune set of articles a real classic on Indian history.
Contents
ABBREVIATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
PREFATORY NOTE IQBAL HUSAIN
INTRODUCTION
APPRECIATION
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE 1853
June
India
Revolution in China and in Europe
Sir Charles Wood’s East Indian Reforms
The British Rule in India
July
India
The East India Company-Its History and Results
The Indian Question
The Government of India
The East India Question
War in Burma
August
India
The Future Results of British Rule in India
October
Railway Construction in India
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE 1855
February
The Late British Government
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE 1857
April
Whose Atrocities?
July
The Revolt in the Indian Army
August
The Revolt in India
The Indian Question
Indian News
State of the Indian Insurrection
The Indian Insurrection
September
Despatch of Troops to India
The Revolt in India
The Indian Revolt
Investigation of Tortures in India
British Incomes in India
October
The revolt in India
November
The Revolt of India
December
The Capture of Delhi
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE 1858
January
The Siege and Storming of Lucknow
February
The Relief of Lucknow
The Approaching Indian Loan
April
British for the Administration of India
The Fall of Lucknow
May
How Literature was Taken
The Annexation of Oude
June
Lord Canning’s Proclamation and Land Tenure in India
After the Fall of Lucknow
The British Army in India
July
The Indian Army
Taxation in India
The Indian Bill
August
Transport of Troops to India
September
History of the Opium Trade (1)
History of the Opium Trade (2)
October
The Revolt in India
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE 1859
April
Great Trouble in Indian Finance
August
British Commerce
October and December
Trade with China
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE 1860
July
British Commerce
August
Army in India, Commerce
The New Sardinian, French and Indian Loans
September
British Commerce
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE 1861
October
The British Cotton Trade
November
The Intervention in Mexico
APPENDICES
Unsigned Articles in the New York Daily Tribune, 1853-58, not established to be
SUPPLEMENT
References to India in Other Writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX