New in Paperback: India and China in the Colonial World

INDIA AND CHINA IN THE COLONIAL WORLD
Edited by Madhavi Thampi

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266 pages 215x140 mm Paperback
Rs 295
ISBN 978-81-87358-53-4
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, HISTORY, POLITICS, ECONOMIC HISTORY

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India and China in the Colonial World brings together thirteen essays by eminent Indian and Chinese scholars as well as young researchers who look at the multidimensional interaction between the two countries. This interaction was of many kinds and took place at various levels. This volume casts new light on some of the problems that have confronted the relations between India and China as new states and, in doing so, challenges stereotyped images of this relationship.

The major areas of India-China relationships covered in this book include some aspects of the situation during and after World War II. Some papers, such as those on the importance of Shanghai in Sino-Indian trade, the presence of the Chinese community in India and Indians in China; Indian fighters in the Taiping Rebellion; Gandhi and the Chinese in South Africa; and ties between south-west China and north-east India during World War II; present the findings of new research. Others such as those pertaining to India-China relations in the period, such as the opium trade; the controversial visit of Rabindranath Tagore to China; and the complexity of Subhash Chandra Bose’s position with relation to both China and Japan have been put in a new light.

The essays in this book are particularly relevant as they help to understand the relationship between India and China in the context of a historical perspective.

Madhavi Thampi teaches Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Studies of Delhi University. She is the author of Indians in China, 1800-1949 (Delhi, 2005) and co-author of China and the Making of Bombay (Mumbai, 2009). She is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, and Associate Editor of China Report.

Contents
Introduction - Madhavi Thampi
TRADE AND ECONOMIC INTERACTIONS
Pathways of the Poppy: India’s Opium Trade in the Nineteenth Century - Asiya Siddiqi
Shanghai: A Window for Studying Sino-Indian Relations in the Era of Colonialism and Imperialism
- Chen Zhilong
CHINESE IN INDIA, INDIANS IN CHINA
The Chinese Community of Calcutta: Their EarlySettlement and Migration - Ramakrishna Chatterjee
The Indian Community in China and Sino-Indian Relations - Madhavi Thampi
CULTURAL INTERACTION
The Controversial Guest: Tagore in China - Sisir Kumar Das
Turning Point of India-China Relations in the Twentieth Century: The Linkage Role of Tan Yun-shan
- Huang Chih-lien
NATIONAL AND REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN INDIA AND CHINA
The 1857 Rebellion and Indian Involvement in the Taiping Uprising in China - B.R. Deepak
Gandhi and the Chinese Community in South Africa - Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea
Nehru, Chiang Kai-shek, and the Second World War- Avinash Mohan Saklani
Subhash Chandra Bose’s Perspective on China - Girish Chandra Maiti
EMERGENCE OF A NEW RELATIONSHIP
Links between Yunnan and India during the Second World War- Ge Yikun and Li Wei
Indian Perceptions of the Emergence of the People’s Republic of China - Shalini Saksena
Perceptions and India–China Relations at the End of the Colonial Era - Surjit Mansingh
Appendix
Index

TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY IN INDIA
State, Business and Labour in a Global EconomyDilip Subramanian

‘This is an impressive achievement that fills a major gap in the literature, that is genuinely inter-disciplinary, and that calls on a range of Francophone literature on the sociology of industry and work that is seldom cited in studies of Indian industry.’
Jonathan Parry, FBA
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology,
London School of Economics and Political Science

‘[The work]… has the potential to become a benchmark study in government-business-labour relations during the import-substituting industrialization era in India…. The proposed work evidently has a global readership….’
Tirthankar Roy,
London School of Economics and Political Science


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690 pages 215x140 mm Hardback
Published price Rs 895
ISBN 978-81-87358-42-8
BUSINESS HISTORY, LABOUR HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY OF WORK, POLITICS
Pub Date July 2010
Telecommunications Industry in India represents the first comprehensive study of a state-run enterprise in the telecommunications industry. The study traces over a period of half a century (1948-2009) the growth and decline of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI). At the heart of the monograph stands one central interrogation: How does the socio-technical system of production in a state-controlled firm shape the relations linking the four main actors: the state, management, union and workers?

The original contribution of this book lies in combining business history and labour history within a single conceptual framework. The author evaluates the broader conclusions about the telecommunications industry and public sector through the lens of an individual firm to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of change in the globalizing Indian economy.

The work is well in command of the literature on the global business history counterparts of ITI in the telecommunications industry. It is further strengthened by the use of French material on the subject which is now accessible for the first time in English.

Dilip Subramanian is Associate Professor at the Reims Management School and is affiliated to the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

ContentsIntroduction1. The Construction of a Monopoly
2. The History and Politics of Technological Change
3. The Burden of Monopoly and State Regulation
4. The Advent of Competition: Fallout of Global Telecommunications Deregulation
5. Market Forces in Full Play: Management Gains or Losses for Labour?
6. Spheres of Practice: An Ethnography of Printed Circuit Board Assembly Work
7. Workers and Independent Unionism
8. Rank-and-File Challenge to Union and Management Authority
9. Passions of Language and Caste
ConclusionEpilogue
Index