1. RISE OF SOCIALIST POLITICS IN INDIA Workers and Peasant Movements

2. Indian Industries Railways, Plantations, Mining, Jute and Cotton Textile Transformations of Countryside and Formation of Labor Catchment Areas Indentured Workers Adult Male Migrant Workers and Urban Life Ethnicity, Gender and Religion Among Workers Class, Community and Ethnicity

3. Governing Indian Workers Planter and Manger Raj Role of Intermediaries Informal Overcrowded Labor Markets Thin Layer of Skilled Workers Legal Intervention of Colonial State: Working Hours Act 1881-1941 Nationalist Dilemma Strikes and New Demands Among Workers in the late nineteenth century

4. Labor in Inter War Years First World War and Expansion of Indian Industries Economic Crisis General Strikes Formation of All India Trade Union Congress (1920) Workers and Peasant Party and the Rise of Communist Party of India Formation of the Congress Socialist Party in 1934 Gandhian Alertnatives

5. Kishan Question Nature of Peasant Movements in India before War Nationalist Mobilization of Peasantry on Revenue Question Gandhian Approach Rights of Tillers and Tenant Famers Ethnicity and Peasant Movement Formation of All India Kishan Sabha in 1936 Congress’s Growing Distance from Peasantry