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1. Introduction; 2. Industrialization in India before 1947: conventionalapproaches and alternative perspectives; 3. Workers, trade unions and thestate in colonial India; 4. Workers' politics and the mill districts ofBombay between the wars; 5. Workers, violence and the colonial state:representation, repression and resistance; 6. Police and public order inBombay, 1880-1947; 7. Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896-1914;8. Indian nationalism, 1914-1947: Gandhian rhetoric, the Congress and theworking classes; 9. South Asia and world capitalism: towards a social historyof labour; Bibliography; Index.