Marxism in IndiaMarxism in India deals with the evolution, growth, struggle for survival, and reasons for failure of this ideology in India. Kiran Maitra analyses the challenges that have beleaguered marxism in our country in the last eight decades - flawed advice from abroad, challenges from within the country, and the incapacity of the marxists themselves. Given the contemporary political scenario in the country it is struggling for mere survival through means and methods, often in total disregard of the tenets of marxism. |
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Marxism Comes to India | |
India Accepts Marxism | |
War and the Indian Marxists | |
Indian Marxists on the Eve of Independence | |
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Abani achievement Adhikari all-India anti-imperialist became bolsheviks Bombay Borodin bourgeoisie Britain Calcutta capitalist Carranza Cawnpore central committee Chattopadhyaya colonial question Comintern Communist International communist movement Communist Party communists in India comrades conference Congress Socialist Party Conspiracy countries Dange David Petrie delegates Documents economic executive committee exploited failed fight formed freedom Gandhi German ibid imperialist India Marxists Indian communists Indian National Congress Indian revolutionaries Inprecor issued K.N. Joglekar Kerala Labour Monthly leaders leadership Lenin letter M.N. Roy manifesto Marx marxists marxists in India masses meeting Memoirs Moscow movement in India muhajirs Mukherjee Muslim League Muzaffar Ahmed national liberation nationalist organisation organization P.C. Joshi Palme Dutt Party of India Party of Mexico peasants parties people’s programme proletariat radical Ranadive Roy’s Satya Bhakta second congress Singaravelu situation social socialist revolution Soviet Union struggle tactics thesis took underground revolutionaries united front West Bengal workers and peasants