How Was a Marxist Working Class Conceptualised in 20th Century Bombay?
These quotes have been selected from Juned Shaikh’s article “Translating Marx: Mavali, Dalit and the Making of Mumbai’s Working Class, 1928-1935,” that traces the construction of a cohesive working class in Mumbai in the 1930s, through a close reading of the Marathi translation of the The Communist Manifesto.
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