Miners and millhands : work, culture, and politics in Princely Mysore

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Miners and millhands : work, culture, and politics in Princely Mysore

Janaki Nair

Sage Publications, 1998

  • : USA : hbk
  • : India : hbk

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 1991

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-320) and index

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This pioneering work is a comparative study of the work processes, culture and politics of two major centres of industrial production in Princely Mysore - Bangalore and the Kolar Gold Fields - in the first half of the twentieth century. Janaki Nair develops a unique perspective on the relations of power and authority which were forged in a princely state under colonial rule.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE: KOLAR GOLD FIELDS Dangerous Labour Crime, Work and Punishment Visions of Plenitude in the Margins of Subsistence Representing Labour The Strike of 1930 Political Worlds of Workers PART TWO: BANGALORE Production Regimes and Cultural Processes Labouring Lives in the City Learning to Strike The Seductions of Nationalism Conclusion

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