Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Introductioin: Labour and Ist Historiography; Part I: 1. Barracks, Bazaars and Bastis: Camppo Kanpur, The Brutal City; Industrial Kanpur; Rhythms of Industrial Expansion; The Politics of Space and Sanitation; 2. Between Two Worlds: The Village and the City: Workers in Kanpur: Numbers; The Question of Supply; Caste and Community; Of Women and Children; Linkages; 3. Family Strategies and Everyday Life: Families: Structures and Strategies; Identities, Images; Experiences; Cruel Habitations, Workers' Earnings; Patterns of Consumption; 4. Work Culture: Power at the Workplace; The Experience of Work; Everyday Practive; Rules Defined; PART II: 5. Confronting Authority: Representing 1919; The Question of Organisation; Exercising Power; Disciplining Labour; 6. Lal Kanpur: Solidarities; Order and Disorder; Images of Radicalism; PART III: 7. Ties of Community: Religion, Ritual and Everyday Life; Mobilising the Community: Assertion of Caste; Conflicts and Confrontations; Crime, Violence and Communal Riots; Communal Politics; 8. The Politics of Labour and the Languages of Nationalism: Ambivalences of the Nationalist Self; Radical Rhetoric of the 1930s; The Paradoxes of Power; Visions of the Nation; 9. Despair; List of Sources for Graphs, Illustrations, and Cartoons; Bibliography; Index