2026/01/01 by Tanroop Sandhu · 1 voice
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies #Indian Economic and Social Development #Political Economy and Marxism
paper · doi:10.1093/hwj/dbag012
openalex publication_date 2026/01/01 · openalex created_date 2026/05/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Abstract This paper explores the possibilities of internationalist solidarity in late colonial India through the interplay of global theory and local practice in the political work of Philip Spratt, Ben Bradley, and Lester Hutchinson in India during the 1928 General Strike in Bombay. Their activities illuminate attempts to organize a unified movement across the dividing lines of empire and race. Challenging the perception of communism in India as a failed project, I examine the fragments of possibility in its history, analysing India as a site of world revolutionary import where ideas of decolonization, solidarity, and revolution were forged and lived.