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In March 2018, 40,000 farmers, overwhelmingly Adivasis, marched 182 kilometres from Nashik to Mumbai, across hill and dale, in blistering heat. Mostly barefoot, some with bleeding feet, these farmers had converged on the megapolis under the banner of the All-India Kisan Sabha to berate their government for its many betrayals of their demands. The farmers won the hearts and sympathies of an often apathetic and unsympathetic urban population which was moved by their heroism, dignity, and determination in the face of overwhelming odds. While the Kisan Long March is relatively better known, the long history of organizing that preceded it is not. For instance, most people outside Maharashtra are not aware of a historic strike by farmers the previous summer. Nor are most aware of the long history of kisan struggles in Maharashtra, going back over a century. Farmers on the Move is a rare and valuable account of the dogged, persevering, and creative tactics and strategy that went into organizing kisans. Full of ups and downs, hopes and heartbreaks, it is a moving story of human tenacity and the triumph of the spirit.

In 1921, there was a peasant rebellion in Malabar in present-day Kerala. The British colonialists attempted to give it a communal colour since most peasants were Muslim and the landlords Hindu. This narrative suited the landlords and served their interest. In our own times, forces of Hindutva have adopted the same communal narrative and are attempting to write the Malabar Rebellion of 1921 out of the history of the Freedom Struggle. History, however, is the result of a complex interplay of several factors. The early communists and some secular nationalists understood the rebellion to have a class character, but which would be manifest - due to the land tenure system set in place in Malabar - with religious and caste characteristics. This volume collects six of the definitive Communist voices from 1921 to 2021 that challenge the attempt to communalise the Moplah Rebellion; instead, they offer fact-based, materialist analyses that foreground the class character of the agrarian revolt, the way in which class intersected with other social identities (of religion and caste) in the unfurling of the rebellion, and the national and international shape of the rebellion. Together, these writings give the lie to the Hindutva narrative and assert the importance of rational, secular, and evidence-based history writing.

Samaj ke kamzor vyakti ke sanghasrh kaa chitran karti marmik kahaniyan. Kabr ki zamin (Jesintakerketta) me jab ek adivasi yuvti ke bachche ke kriya-karm ki baari aati hai, to dharm ke thekedaaruth khade hote hain...Gulabi Ration card (Vandana Shukla) me gharib adivasiyon ke ek gaon me ek din ghoshna hoti hai kiun sabko makaan diya jayega.Unke sapne pankh farfarane lagte hain.Lekin pata chalta hai ki makaanbanaane ki pariyojna par rok lag gayee hai.Uske baad jo hota hai, use dekh adhikaarion ke hosh udjaate hain....Koyla chor( Neeraj neer) me ek naujawan apni patni ke kahne par anya kayi doston ki tarah ekbekaar pade khadaan se koyla nikaalkar use bechne ke awaidh dhande me shamil hota hai, magar....Meena bazar (Vaibhav singh) ek adher salesman par hai, jo saari ke ek showroom me kaam karta hai.Showroom ke boodhe maalik ki maut ke baad uskaa ladka cctv camera lagwaa deta hai. Yeh camera,salesman ki zindgi me toofaan macha deta hai... gyaarah udiymaan kathakaar-Jesinta kerketta,kamlesh, Vandana shukla, Neeraj neer, Vaibhav singh, Hari mridul, Yusuf kirmani, Alok kumarmishra, Vijay kumar tiwary, Dr. Ayesh Aarfin, Ram nagina maurya-Jinki kahaniyon kaa chayan kiyaahai kavi, kathakar, natakkaar aur anuvadak Sanjay kundan ne.

Zero Mile ek aisi series hai jo hamare chir-parichit shahron ko ek nayee nazar se dekhti hai. Is serieski har kitaab ek aise jane-maane lekhak ki kalam ki den hai jo us shahar se gahra lagaaw rakhte hain,lekin shahar ke vibhinn pahluon kaa tatasth hokar vishleshan bhi karte hain. Iski pahli kadi ke roopme Patna shahar par yeh kitaab prastut hai.Isme kavi-kathakar Sanjay kundan ne shahar kebuniyaadi charitra ko pahchanne ki koshish karte hue iske janjeevan ki jhaanki pesh ki hai. Unhon neshahar me aa rahe Badlavon ko rekhankit kiyaa hai aur iski kuchch sthaayi samasyaaon ki charcha bhiki hai.Yeh na to Shahar kaa itihaas hai, na sansmaran, na hi samajshastriya vivechan lekin isme in tinon kitaqat aur rochaktaa samaahit hai. Zero mile Patna is shahar ko likha ek prem patra hai-aur har prempatra ki tarah isme pyaar bhi hai , shikaayat bhi, dulaar bhi hai aur anban bhi.

This book investigates the figure of Savarkar the author.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was endowed with a sense of being outraged. For someone steeped in the learning and practice of law, the capacity to feel outraged does something very distinct, it becomes a scalding weapon in the otherwise cold arsenal of reason, logic, codes, procedures, precedents, and dicta. Ambedkar placed his legal training as cold ore is in the furnace of a smeltery, to produce the fiery ingots of a renascent vision, which then became the Constitution of India. How can one keep the provisions of that text and the laws that have crowded around it from turning cold again? The pages of this slender volume speak of how in India, the land of Ambedkar, the Buddha, Gandhi, Mahavira, Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, and Thiruvalluvar, so much happens in human relationships that must cause outrage but does not. But the pages do so with a distinct message of hope. Outrage and hope? Is that not something of a contradiction? Not so, if we study the achievements of Dr Ambedkar and of his thought-partner, Justice Chandru. The law in India is not a code as much as it is a philosophy of redressal, remedy, and reparation. And, at its best, redemption.

'There is no alternative (TINA)' has been the slogan of the neoliberals ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The counter-slogan has been, 'Another world is possible'. Here is the story of the ongoing struggles to build 'another world' in Kerala, India.The neoliberal imperative is to 'maximize growth at any cost'. Kerala has embarked upon an alternative - to optimize growth within redistribution, environmental sustainability, gender and social justice, and concerns of progressive culture.Confronting the challenges of globalization, and within the ever-tightening restrictions imposed by the Union government, Kerala has pursued alternative policies of protecting the public sector, health, and education with highly positive outcomes. These outcomes, in turn, have strengthened the social security and care systems and drastically reduced hunger and poverty. Democratic decentralization has provided the framework for implementing such a program with the participation of the people.This book, written in an accessible, non-technical, and jargon-free style by an outstanding academic with decades of experience as an administrator and policy maker, shows us how another world is in fact possible.

On 18 March 1871, the people of Paris opened the door to utopia. Over 72 days, the workers built new institutions and advanced the practice of democracy. The forces of counterrevolution regrouped, marched on the city, and defeated the Commune on 28 May. Two days later, Karl Marx delivered an address to the International Workingmen's Association, a text later published as The Civil War in France. Almost fifty years later, as the Soviet Republic was being formed, Lenin reflected on Marx's text to consider how to smash the inherited state institutions and to build socialist institutional forms. The Commune was reborn in a higher form as the Soviet. This book collects Marx's address, Lenin's chapter in State and Revolution on the Commune, Bertolt Brecht's poem on the communards, and Manifesto of the Paris Commune's Federation of Artists.

Jab tak Awaz bachi hai, tab tak ummid bachi hai.Is srinkhla ki alag-alag kadiyon me aap apne samayke jwalant prashnon par lekhkon-kalakaaron -karyakartaaon ki bebaak tippaniyaan padhenge. Assamme 19 lakh log NRC ki aakhiri soochi se baahar hain. Grih mantri Amit shah ne 20 november 2019 kosansad me spasht ghoshna ki hai ki nagarikta (sanshodhan) kanoon lane ke baad ise naye sire sepoore mulk me laagoo kiya jayega. Poore mulk me NRC taiyaar karaane ke kyaa mayne hain ? Iskenishaane par kaun hain? Assam me iske banne ki prakriyaa se kyaa sabak miltaa hai? Anagarikghoshit kar diye gaye logon kaa kyaa mustaqbil hoga? In sawaalon kaa jawaab talashne ki koshish haiyeh pustika.Lekhak- Harsh Mandar¿ Varna balakrishnan¿ Zasmer ali¿ Abdul kalam azad¿ Centre for equity studiesSubodh vermä Suprakash talukdar¿ Sangeeta baruä Teesta setalvad¿ Ezaz ashraf¿ Ajaygoodavarthi¿ T.K. Rajalakshmi

Marx and Engels were first drawn into political militancy on the issue of the national unification of their native land Germany and the creation of a democratic republic there instead of monarchical autocracy. They had begun studying the colonial question in diverse countries from Ireland to India and China as well as the national question such as Poland in their youth. Then the decade which followed the publication of the Communist Manifesto witnessed the national-democratic revolutions of 1848 all across Europe and the country-wide uprisings in India during 1857-59. They participated actively in the European revolutions and thought deeply about British colonialism in India writing thousands of pages on these developments across continents.Their reflections on India and China were crucial in Marx's later and more mature work notably Capital where colonialism is seen as a fundamental element in the primary accumulation of capital within Europe. Similarly the German experience made them deeply aware of the frequent counter-revolutionary role of the bourgeoisie even in the national-democratic revolutions. Usually their analyses of European nationalisms on the one hand and of the colonial experience in Asia on the other are seen as totally separate bodies of writing.This selection put together by the eminent Marxist scholar Aijaz Ahmad is unique in that it tries to see all of that work as part of a single political and theoretical project.

Writings of 19th century radical opponent of the cast system in India

भारतीय समाज और राजनीति को जिन घटनाओं ने सबसे ज्यादा बदला, उनमें मंडल कमीशन की रिपोर्ट का स्थान बहुत ऊपर है. भारत में आज़ादी के बाद के इतिहास को मंडल कमीशन के पहले का भारत और मंडल कमीशन के बाद का भारत जैसे कालखंडों में बांटा जा सकता है. यह आश्चर्यजनक है कि जिस रिपोर्ट का इतना असर है, उसे बहुत कम लोगों ने पढ़ा है. यह रिपोर्ट सरकारी दफ्तरों में सिमटकर रह गई. इस रिपोर्ट का सरकार ने हिंदी में अनुवाद तो कराया, लेकिन उसकी भाषा इतनी सरकारी और कठिन है, कि उसे पढ़ना और समझना मुश्किल है. यह किताब उसी कमी को पूरा करने की कोशिश है. इस किताब को पढ़ने से ही पता चलेगा कि मंडल कमीशन की अब तक सिर्फ दो सिफारिश लागू हुई हैं. 38 सिफारिशें लागू नहीं हुई हैं. आपको पता होना चाहिए कि वे 38 सिफारिशें कौन सी हैं. इस किताब से आपको पता चलेगा कि OBC को भी प्रमोशन में आरक्षण और निजी क्षेत्र में आरक्षण की सिफारिश मंडल कमीशन ने की थी, जिसे कभी लागू नहीं किया गया. यह किताब बताएगी कि मंडल कमीशन ने यह कहा था कि भारत में जातिवार जनगणना होनी चाहिए ताकि नीतियों को आंकड़ों और तथ्यों का आधार मिल सके.//देश के हर नागरिक के लिए एक बेहद जरूरी किताब. - दिलीप मंडल