Jai Bhim Comrade Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2011 Indias Dalit (oppressed) castes were abhorred as untouchables. The film, shot over 14 years follows the music of protest of Maharashtra's Dalits. In an age of increasing bigotry and superstition, it is both a record of recent history as well as eloquent testimony to a tradition that has survived amongst the subaltern for thousands of years.
A Marxist History of the World part 24: Hindus, Buddhists, and the Gupta Empire Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 More than half a millennium separated the fall of Indias Mauryan Empire in the late 3rd century BCE (before the common era) from the rise of the Gupta Empire in the early 4th century CE (common era). Economic and social change during the interval altered the foundations of imperialism.
A Marxist History of the World part 56: The Indian Mutiny Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The Indian Mutiny was the subcontinents first war of independence, with Indians of different ethnic and religious backgrounds fighting side-by-side despite the divide and rule fostered by the British.
A Marxist History of the World part 94: End of Empire? Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 In spite of the imperialist powers' attempts to cling on to their colonies, formal empire was finished by the late 1970s. But this was not the end of imperialism.