EXPLORING MARXIST BENGAL C. 1971-2011 : MEMORY, HISTORY AND IRONY Debraj Bhattacharya.
Language: English Publication details: Kolkata K P Bagchi & Company 2016/01/01Edition: 1Description: 285ISBN:- 9788170743668 (hardback)
- 8170743664 (hardback)
- Marxist Bengal, c.1971-2011 : memory, history, and irony
- DEB/EX 329.095414
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this book the author, who was born and brought up in West Bengal/India during the Left Front era, ponders over the question, ‘How did I become interested in Marxist politics and what do I still believe in?’ As a student of History, the author had learnt that one should maintain distance and analyse the object of study as if the analyst is a judge trying to find the truth about a place and a period of time. Such a method, according to the author, cannot capture many of the nuances of the Left experience in Bengal. Avoiding the traditional route, in this book Bhattacharya has attempted to weave a personal narrative with an impersonal historical understanding of West Bengal/India under Left Front. This weaving of the personal with the historical also makes the book different from most other scholarly works on the Left experience in West Bengal and India. The book begins with the author’s childhood in the late-seventies/early
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-281) and index.
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