The Silent Rebellion
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 15 August 2026
- 24 December 2026
- ISBN:
- 9781009885478
- 9781009885522
- 9781009885508
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.575kg, 330 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 330 Pages
- Subjects:
- Social and Population History, Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Political Economy, Political Sociology
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- Social and Population History, Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Political Economy, Political Sociology
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Book description
The Silent Rebellion tells a history of labour subjectivity formation at the site of education and the defiance of labouring subalterns who refused to see themselves solely as labouring bodies in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so by focusing on the hitherto neglected social histories of nonelite education: industrial, technical, factory, and night schools. On the one hand, the book examines how elites-encompassing colonial officials, employers, and dominant castes-integrated caste labour into their modern projects of industrial and technical education, thereby reproducing labouring conditions, subjectivities, and the caste social order. On the other hand, the book reveals how labouring subalterns-artisans, factory workers, and service-industry workers-used education to rebel against their 'pre-destined' labouring fate. Focusing on their demands for literary education, experiences of reading, and becoming teachers, clerks, and poets, the book develops new analytical frameworks for writing nonwork histories of working lives.
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