Subho Basu

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Subho Basu is a Professor of history at McGill University, Canada. He has published numerous articles in the Modern Asian Studies, Critical Asian Studies and other academic journals. His publications include Does Class Matter? Colonial Capital and Workers’ Resistance in Bengal (1890-1937)(2004).

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Early Life of Mawlana Bhasani: Making of Radical Emancipatory Subaltern Islam

Mawlana Bhasani’s political life is characterized by a paradox. His frequent invocation of Islam and his involvement with pro-Maoist radical peasant and student movements stood in contrasts to each other. This paradox, I argue, reflects Bhasani’s endeavour to reinvent peasant communitarian consciousness in relation to their marginality in global capitalist property regime.

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