D. Veeraraghavan
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D. Veeraraghavan
D. Veeraraghavan (1958–2009) studied history in Chennai at R.K.M. Vivekananda College, Presidency College, and Pachaiyappa’s College. In 1982 he joined IIT Madras for his PhD and submitted his thesis, in 1987, on the history of the working-class movement in interwar Chennai. The next year he joined its faculty and taught there until his premature death. He is the author of Chennai Perunagara Thozhirchanga Varalaru (translated into Tamil by S.S. Kannan and Puduvai Gnanam, Alaigal Veliyeettagam, Chennai, 2003). His The Making of the Madras Working Class (LeftWord, 2013) was published posthumously to wide acclaim.
- Half a Day for Caste?INR 250
In 1953, Chief Minister C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji) introduced The Modified Scheme of Elementary Education in rural schools in Madras State. Based on the Gandhian model of Basic Education, it propo...
- The Making of the Madras Working ClassINR 575
The Madras Labour Union, founded in April 1918, is the first organized labour union in India. May Day was first celebrated in India in Napier's Park, Madras, in 1923. These are well-attested facts ...
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anton chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in the world. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his
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K.M. Tiwari
K.M. Tiwari is a veteran trade unionist and Secretary of the Delhi State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
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Arthur Koestler
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Madeleine R. Levy
Madeleine R. Levy is a lawyer in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
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Mrityunjay Tripathi
Mrityunjay Tripathi is assistant professor in the Hindi programme at Ambedkar University Delhi. He has translated the autobiography of Mallikarjun Mansur into Hindi (Ras yatra), and a Hindi transla
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Manjari Katju
Manjari Katju teaches political science at the University of Hyderabad.
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Keith Ansell-Pearson
Keith Ansell-Pearson is Director of Graduate Research at the University of Warwick. He is the author of several books on Nietzsche and Deleuze, including Deleuze and Philosophy (1997).