Aashob

, 65–66

Aazadi aur Wajodiat (Freedom and Existentialism)

, 67–68

Adab Braye Adab (literature for the sake of literature)

, 64

Adab Braye Zindagi (literature for life)

, 64

Adab-a-Aalia (Great Literature)

, 63

Aesthetics of cricket

, 104–109

Africa

, 155

Agency

, 79–81

“Agha Khani” period

, 55

All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA)

, 186

All Indian Trade Union Congress (AITUC)

, 4

American civil rights

, 183

Analysis of situations

, 33

Anti-caste struggles

, 9–10

Anti-colonial Marxism

, 154–155

colonial-fascism

, 172–176

Dalit, anti-fascist

, 163–164

French India

, 157–158

internationalist anti-imperialist marxism

, 167–172

Portuguese India

, 155–157

Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986)

, 164–166

V Subbiah

, 158–162

Anti-colonialism

, 1–2

Anti-fascism

, 163–164

Anti-fascist movement

, 163–164

Anti-globalization movement

, 125–126

Appropriation

, 134

Aragalaya (struggle)

, 27–28, 122

Archetypes

, 65

Armed struggle

, 164–165

Asian Institute of Development (AID)

, 24

Awami League

, 60–61

Awami Tehreek

, 82–83

Awami Tehrik

, 78–79

Babri mosque

, 113

Balance of forces

, 33

Bandung Conference

, 59

Barbarism

, 23–24

Bengal Indigo Disturbances of 1859

, 2–3

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

, 113

Biraderi ties

, 40–41

Black athletes

, 107–108

in North America

, 101

Black Panther movement

, 183

Blue Mutiny of Champaran in 1917

, 2–3

Bolshevik Revolution

, 125

Bonapartism

, 34–35, 37–38, 137–138

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS)

, 126

British rule

, 2–5

Capitalism

, 2, 23, 131–132, 143–144

Capitalist exploitation

, 77–78

Carnation Revolution

, 171

Caste

, 5

Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA)

, 165–166

Ceylon Communist Party

, 24

Ceylon Petroleum Corporation

, 24

City

, 24

Class

, 31, 185–186

class-caste struggle

, 163

solidarity

, 41

Class struggles

, 126, 163

in theory

, 68–69

CLR James

, 100

Co-optation

, 122–123, 134

Collective consciousness

, 65

Colonial roots of postcolonial confusion

, 54–56

Colonial social formation

, 31–32

Colonial-fascism

, 172–176

Colonial-fascist regime

, 172

Colonialism

, 21

Combat

, 161–162

Commodification of body

, 84–87

Communalism

, 55

Communism

, 181–182, 184

Communist Manifesto

, 181–182

Communist Party (CP)

, 138

Communist Party of Ceylon (CPSL)

, 6–7

Communist Party of India (CPI)

, 3–4, 48, 56, 181–182

Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT)

, 159

Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas (CONCP)

, 165

Conjunctural awareness

, 41–43

Country

, 24

Cricket

, 100–102, 106

Cricket watchers

, 105

Crisis, image of

, 122–125

Cultural centres

, 160–161

Cultural Marxism

, 52

Dalit

, 163–164

Decolonization

, 84–85

Defeatism

, 65

Défice científico do colonizador

, 170

Dependency theory

, 12–13, 48, 52

Desertion

, 2–3

Development

, 19–20

Diagnostic of power

, 80–81

Dialectics

of form and content

, 69–70

of individual freedom and submission to collectivism

, 66–68

Dictatorship

, 37–38

Disciplined spontaneity

, 110

Dispossession

, 131

Domestic elites

, 125

Domestic manufacturing

, 133

Economic breakdown in Sri Lanka

, 133–135

Electrification

, 26–27

Elites

, 125

Empire

, 154

Epistemology of resistance

, 188

Estado Novo

, 155–156

Ethnic consciousness

, 168

Ethnicity

, 35–36

Eventual liberation

, 77–78

Expansive love

, 89

Exploitation

, 77–78

Failed nation-building project

, 53–62

Fascism

, 52

Female friendships

, 76–77

Feminist scholarship in Pakistan

, 76–77

Feudal system

, 86

Feudalism

, 61

Financialization

, 124–125, 131, 133

Fiscal consolidation

, 131

Free Trade Zones (FTZs)

, 130

French Empire

, 154

French India

, 157–158

Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO)

, 154–155, 171

G.V.S. de Silva

, 19–20

Gandhian Freedom Movement

, 158

Gender

, 184

Géo Gras Group

, 161–162

Geopolitical polarization

, 125–126

German Ideology, The

, 184–185

Ghazal (lyrical poem)

, 69–70

Global capitalism

, 130

Global unraveling

, 125–126

GotaGoHome

, 134

Great Hartal of 1953

, 122, 136, 138

Great Revolt

, 122–123

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

, 133

Halqa-e-Arabab-e-Zooq

, 64–65

Hamza Alavi

, 30

conjunctural awareness

, 41–43

peasantry and revolution

, 38–41

post-colonial state and related concerns

, 31–38

Heer Waris Shah

, 66

Hegemony

, 33

Heretical Thoughts

, 24–26

Himani Bannerji, interview with

, 181–182

Hindu nationalism

, 13–14, 101–102

Holy Family, The

, 184–185

Housewifization

, 81, 86

Ideology

, 184–185

Imperialism

, 8, 22, 170

Import Substitution Industrialisation (ISI)

, 39

Independence of Bangladesh

, 60–62

Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)

, 181–182

Indigenous bourgeoisie

, 31–32

Industrial Development Board

, 24

Industrialization

, 131–133

Inquilab (Urdu-language newspaper)

, 4–5

Institutional materiality

, 37

Interlocking oppressions

, 42

Intermediate regime

, 136–138

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

, 136

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

, 79, 123

International Sovereign Bonds (ISBs)

, 124–125

Internationalist anti-imperialist marxism

, 167–172

Islamization

, 78–79

Jallianwala Bagh massacre

, 158

Jamaat-i-Islami (JI)

, 50, 59–60

Jinnah League

, 56

Karo Kari

, 90

Khawateen Mahaz-e-Amal

, 78–79

Khoti

, 10

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK)

, 58

Krishak Praja Party

, 56

Labor inside and outside capitalist wage relations

, 142–143

Labour Advisory Boards

, 4

Labour uprisings

, 2–3

Landowning class

, 31–32

Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP)

, 6–7, 135–136

Left liberal historiography

, 54

Left politics

, 50

Leftist newspaper offices

, 160–161

Liberal discourses

, 49

Liberal feminists

, 81

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

, 124

Longue Durée Origins of the Present Crisis

, 129–131

Love

, 91–95

Lucknow Pact

, 55–56

Lusotropicalism

, 155–156

Madras Labour Union

, 3

Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP)

, 23–24

Mardangi ki Nafsiat aur Inqalabi Amal (Psychology of Masculinity and Revolutionary Activism)

, 68–69

Marxism

, 1–2, 19–20, 52, 154–155, 181–182

British rule

, 2–5

after independence

, 5–8

issue

, 11–16

Marxist aesthetics

, 101

Marxist feminism

, 76

commodification of body

, 84–87

love and revolution

, 91–95

murder

, 87–91

poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan

, 77–82

Prison Narratives as archive

, 82–84

Marxist Feminists

, 77–78

Marxist theorizing from South Asia

, 8–11

Masculinity

, 68–69

Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP)

, 60

Metropolitan bourgeoisie

, 31–32

Miar-e-Zindagi aur Aazadi (Standard/Quality of Life and Freedom)

, 67

Military dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq

, 78–79

Mirror of Class, The (1989)

, 185–186

Mohammed Azharuddin

, 100

aesthetics of cricket; politics of sport

, 104–109

recording of Azharuddin’s memory

, 102–104

shocker!

, 112–115

with willow

, 109–112

Mojuda Soort-e-Hal aur Adab (Current Situation and Literature)

, 68

Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD)

, 83

Movimento Anti-colonialista (MAC)

, 165

Muhajir ethnicity

, 35–36

Multitude

, 127

Murda Muashray Ki Zindagi (Life of a Dead Society)

, 66–67

Murder

, 87–91

Murdering

, 87–88

Muslim feminity

, 79–80

Muslim League (ML)

, 55

Muslim minority provinces of India

, 55–56

Muslims–Hindu divide in India

, 57–58

Naey Loug (New People)

, 50

NAP

, 60

Nation-class

, 168

National bourgeoisie

, 23

National contradiction

, 59

National liberation

, 167

National Students Federation (NSF)

, 60

National Students Organization (NSO)

, 50

Navyug (Communist literary journal)

, 4–5

Naxal Movement

, 12–13

in India

, 49

Nazism

, 52

Neo-imperialism

, 39

Neocolonialism

, 12–13, 48, 52

New International Economic Order (NIEO)

, 125

Newly independent countries (NICs)

, 12–13, 48

Non-Aligned Movement

, 59

Non-settler colonialism

, 21

Nongovernmental organization (NGO)

, 79

One Unit Scheme

, 78–79

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)

, 184

Paddy Lands Act of 1957

, 23–24, 138

Pakistan

, 30, 48

as “failed nation” or problems of failed nation-building project

, 53–62

contours of emergence of postcolonial theory in

, 62–70

feminist scholarship in

, 76–77

poverty of feminist theory in

, 77–82

Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP)

, 50–51

Pakistan Trade Union Federation (PTUF)

, 5–6

Pakistani Left

, 57

Parti Communiste de l’Inde Française (PCIF)

, 154–155

Participative Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA)

, 24

Passive revolution

, 36, 122–123

Peace dividend

, 124

Peasantry

, 40

Perfume ball

, 105

Peripheral capitalism

, 31–32

Permanent Settlement law in Bengal

, 58

Pessimism

, 65

Plantations

, 20–21

Plurality

, 36

Pluralizing class

, 127–128

Poems of resistance

, 190

eulogy

, 192

Salman Haider

, 195–196

secret passage

, 193

story-teller’s dilemma

, 195

Political activism

, 107–108

Political Economy of Underdevelopment, The

, 20

Political forces

, 59–60

Political horizon

, 147–149

Political protests

, 76

Political regime

, 135–136

Political response in Sri Lanka

, 133–135

Politics of sport

, 104–109

Portuguese Empire

, 154

Portuguese India

, 155–157

Post-colonial countries

, 19–20

Post-colonial developmentalism

, 39

Post-colonial political economy

, 2

Post-colonial position

, 2

Post-colonial social formation

, 31–32

Post-colonial theory

, 12–13, 48–49, 51–52, 62, 70

Postcolonial confusion

, 60–62

Postcolonial critique

, 49

Postcolonial feminism

, 80

Postcolonial feminists

, 82

Postcolonial nation-building in Pakistan

, 56–60

Poverty of feminist theory in Pakistan

, 77–82

Prison Narratives (2017)

, 76

as archive

, 82–84

Progressive Writers Association (PWA)

, 54, 64

Provincialism

, 30–31

Psychoanalysis of metaphors

, 66

Public libraries

, 160–161

Punjab Communist Party

, 5–6

Qaidyani Ji Diary

, 83

Qool-o-Qarar (Giving Consent)

, 63

Quasi-Weberian flirtation

, 35

Race

, 184

Racial capitalism

, 2

Ramjanmabhumi movement

, 113

Ranadive Line

, 7

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)

, 113

Regime of accumulation

, 135–136

Resistance in meantime

, 128–129

Revisionist revolutionaries

, 60

Revolts

, 122

Revolution

, 91, 95, 146–147

in meantime

, 128–129

Rowmari Garden Uprising in 1903

, 2–3

Ruling class reaction and struggle

, 139–140

S.B.D. de Silva

, 19–20

Underdevelopment

, 20–22

“Secular-liberal-left” politics

, 80–81

Self-consciousness

, 63

Self-indulgence

, 64–65

Self-sufficiency

, 125

Settler colonialism

, 21

Shafi League

, 56

Shakhsiat ka shikasta pan (brittleness of the personality)

, 63

Shock

, 113

Sindh

, 76–77

Sindhiani Tehreek

, 83

Sindhiani Tehrik

, 78–79

Socialism

, 23–24

Socialist Party of French India

, 162

Solidarity

, 94

South Asia

, 1–3, 154

Marxist theorizing from

, 8–11

Soviet power

, 26–27

Sri Lanka

, 122

conceptual framework

, 125–129

crisis

, 122–125

critique of political economy

, 140–146

economic breakdown and political response in

, 133–135

external and internal dimensions

, 129–135

future directions

, 146–149

relations between state and society

, 135–140

trajectory within global order

, 123–125

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)

, 136–137

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP)

, 123

State

, 30

regime

, 135–136

Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs)

, 124

Student Federation of India (SFI)

, 181–182

Style

, 105

Subaltern Studies in India

, 52

Suppression

, 122–123

Tashkent Declaration

, 60

Tebbit Test

, 103–104

Tomaz Aquino Messias De Bragança (1924–1986)

, 164–166

Trade unions

, 160, 168

Traditional Left

, 53–54

Tribal channels

, 168

Trickster

, 108

Underdevelopment

, 20–22

prescriptive nature

, 23

United Front (UF)

, 138

United National Party (UNP)

, 123

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

, 24

War on Terror

, 53

West Indian renaissance

, 109

Women Action Forum (WAF)

, 78–79

Working people

, 127

resistance to Bonapartist regime

, 138–139

World Bank

, 79

World-historical figures

, 109

World-systems analysis

, 170

Young People’s Front (YPF)

, 50–51

Zamindars

, 58

Zia ul Haq’s Islamization regime

, 80–81