Marxist Thought in South Asia

Kristin Plys is Associate Professor in the Sociology and History departments at the University of Toronto, Canada, and the 2023-24 J. Clawson Mills Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She specializes in Marxist theory in the Global South and left histories of Pakistan and India in the 1970s.Priyansh is a PhD Candidate in Physical Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Canada. His research broadly looks at the relationship of sport and politics, with a special focus on the Indian state’s interventions in sport policy.Kanishka Goonewardena is Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research is located at the intersection of critical theory, urban studies and political economy, with emphasis on theories of space, ideology and imperialism.

• Chapter 1. Marxist Theory Unbound: Global Perspectives From South Asia; Kristin Plys, Priyansh, and Kanishka GoonewardenaChapter 2. The Anti-Imperialist Marxisms of SBD de Silva and GVS de Silva; Kanishka GoonewardenaChapter 3. Alavi Contra Alavi: Towards a Conjunctural Awareness; Ayyaz MallickChapter 4. Mapping the Politics of Postcolonial Critique in Pakistan Through the Writings of Aziz-ul-Haq (1958-72); Muhammad AzeemChapter 5. Murder as Praxis? Theorising Marxist Feminism in Pakistan Through Akhtar Baloch’s Prison Narratives; Umaima MirajChapter 6. Mohammad Azharuddin as a Theorist of Shock: The Life of an Indian Muslim Cricket Captain in the Time of Hindu Nationalism; PriyanshChapter 7. Crisis and Revolt in Sri Lanka: Theorizing a Horizon of Possibilities Amidst the Unravelling of the Global Order; Devaka Gunawardena and Ahilan KadirgamarChapter 8. Anti-Colonial Marxism in French and Portuguese India Compared: Varadarajulu Subbiah and Aquino de Bragança’s Theories of Colonial Independence; Kristin PlysChapter 9. Interview With Professor Himani Bannerji; Himani Bannerji, Kanishka Goonewardena, Kristin Plys, and PriyanshChapter 10. Poems of Resistance; Salman Haider