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Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More, by Satyendra More, edited by Anupama Rao, translated by Wandana Sonalkar, New Delhi, LeftWord Books, 2019, 293 pp., Rs450 (paperback), ISBN 978-81-940778-0-0.

 

Notes

1. James R. Barrett, ‘Was the Personal Political? Reading the Autobiography of American Communism’, in International Review of Social History, Vol. 53, no. 3 (2008), pp. 395–423 [399].

2. Cf. Wolfgang Schröder, Wilhelm Liebknecht: Soldat der Revolution, Parteiführer, Parlamentarier: Ein Fragment (Berlin: Dietz, 2013).

3. Bertolt Brecht, ‘To Those Born Later’, in John Willett and Ralph Manheim (eds), Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913–1956 (London: Methuen, 1976), pp. 318–20.

4. Eric Hobsbawm, Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (New York: Pantheon, 2007), pp. 141–3.

5. Khan’s autobiographical writings were preserved and published in an edited and abridged version by Hasan N. Gardezi, Chains to Lose: Life and Struggles of a Revolutionary: Memoirs of Dada Amir Haider Khan (Karachi: Pakistan Study Centre, 2007). I quote from the original manuscripts that are held at the Pakistan Study Centre, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.

6. Hasan N. Gardezi, ‘Family Background’, in Chains to Lose: Life and Struggles of a Revolutionary: Memoirs of Dada Amir Haider Khan (Karachi: Pakistan Study Centre, 2007), p. 1.

7. Hasan N. Gardezi, ‘Preface’, in Chains to Lose: Life and Struggles of a Revolutionary: Memoirs of Dada Amir Haider Khan (Karachi: Pakistan Study Centre, 2007), p. 2.

8. Maxim Gorky, My Childhood (Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1977), p. 25.

9. Megha Pansare, ‘A Target-Oriented Study of Maksim Gorky’s Mother in Marathi Polysystem’, in N. Reinhold (ed.), История перевода: Международные подходы к изучению (Moscow, 2012), pp. 255–72.

10. Government of Bombay, Home Department (Spl), Box 68, File 543 (18) C, 1938, Maharashtra State Archives, Mumbai.

11. Juned Shaikh, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021); see this work also for details on Dange, Lotwala, Adhikari and others.

12. S.A. Dange, Gandhi vs Lenin (Bombay: Loksevak Press, 1921), p. 59.

13. Ibid., pp. 59–60.

14. On this point, see V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution (London: Penguin Books, 1992), pp. 7–17.

15. Georges K. Lieten, Colonialism, Class and Nation: The Confrontation in Bombay around 1930 (Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi & Co., 1984), p. 119.

16. Anand Teltumbde, ‘Introduction’, in B.R. Ambedkar, India and Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2017), p. 46.

17. See Muzaffar Ahmad, Communists Challenge Imperialism from the Dock (Calcutta: National Book Agency, 1987), p. 249.

18. J. Devika, ‘Egalitarian Developmentalism, Communist Mobilization, and the Question of Caste in Kerala State, India’, in Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, no. 3 (Aug. 2010), pp. 799–820.

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