Aijaz Ahmad

Aijaz Ahmad
Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) was one of India's best-known Marxist scholars. His best-known books include In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (1992), Lineages of the Present: Ideological and Political Genealogies of Contemporary South Asia (1996), and, from LeftWord Books, Nothing Human is Alien to Me: Aijaz Ahmad in conversation with Vijay Prashad (2020), Iraq, Afghanistan and the Imperialism of Our Time (2004).
Read Vijay Prashad's tribute to Aijaz Ahmad here.
- The Political MarxINR 175
For a thinker whose revolutionary ideas have had such a decisive impact on the world, it is ironic that Marx’s own political writings remain so neglected. His political writings are often seen as...
- इक दौर हमारा बाक़ी हैINR 350
एजाज़ अहमद को पढ़ना आज के भारत को समझने के लिए बेहद ज़रूरी है। वह भारतीय राज...
- On the National and Colonial QuestionsINR 350
Marx and Engels were first drawn into political militancy on the issue of the national unification of their native land, Germany, and the creation of a democratic republic there instead of monarchi...
- Iraq, Afghanistan and the Imperialism of Our TimeINR 450
Starting immediately after the catastrophe of 11th September 2001 and spanning over the next two years, Aijaz Ahmad published a number of long articles on the global imperial design and ...
- A World to WinINR 250
It has been more influential in the making of the modern world than any other piece of political writing. Rarely has call to arms been phrased in a language of such zest, beauty and purity. One hun...
- Only People Make Their Own HistoryINR 395
Samir Amin's primary concern as an economist is the form that imperialism takes in the last hundred years – driven at first by capitalist monopolies and later by what he calls generalized monopol...
- On Communalism and GlobalizationINR 500
In three celebrated lectures, extensively re-worked since they were delivered first, Prof. Aijaz Ahmad dis...
- India: Liberal Democracy and the Extreme RightINR 125This selection feature two long-form essays and a wide-ranging interview. They are of compelling interest to the left, and going beyond the left, to all those who are concerned about the advances made...
- On Socialism and Internationalism
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Twenty left publishers from around the world have come together to release a joint edition including two essential texts by Che Guevara on the 53rd anniversary of his assassination by the CIA in Bo...
- Nothing Human is Alien to MeINR 350
Two features characterize the entire body of Aijaz Ahmad’s work, which offers us a way to read the history of the present. First, his evident wide reading about the history and sociology of the w...
- समाजवाद तथा अंतरराष्ट्रीयता
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अर्नेस्तो ‘चे’ ग्वेरा एक ऐसे आदर्श क्रांतिकारी थे, जिन्होंने किसी एक देश क...
- Nothing Human is Alien to MeINR 280
Two features characterize the entire body of Aijaz Ahmad’s work, which offers us a way to read the history of the present. First, his evident wide reading about the history and sociology of the w...

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