Remembering Raj Chandavarkar
Historian Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, whom I had known closely for the past seven years in London and Bombay, died of a sudden heart attack while at a conference on Four Cities in Modernity at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire on 23 April 2006. As a friend and mentor, his death was a great loss to me both personally and intellectually. I had looked forward to Raj’s guidance and advice as I embarked on my doctorate, which he had been urging me to pursue for many years. His last published work was “From Neighbourhood to Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Left in Bombay’s Girangaon in the Twentieth Century”, which appeared as the introductory essay in Meena Menon and Neera Adarkar’s One Hundred Years One Hundred Voices: The Millworkers of Girangaon: An Oral History, a project with which I was involved as editor and reader when the stories were being collected in 1999-2000.
Historians Douglas Haynes and Subho Basu penned “Rajnarayan Chandavarkar (1953-2006): An Intellectual Biography” for the Economic & Political Weekly in Bombay in June 2006, which we republished on Wikipedia. Along with Raj’s friends and students, we also proposed a roundtable in for the Association for Asian Studies meeting in Boston from 22-25 March 2007, which has just been accepted for the conference. This roundtable, in memory of Raj, will be chaired by Frank Conlon and includes myself, Nikhil Rao, Subho Basu, Douglas Haynes, Lisa Trivedi and Samita Sen. Here is our abstract for Labour Space and Politics: Rajnarayan Chandavarkar and the History of Modern South Asia:
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar was one of the foremost scholars of urban and working class history writing on South Asia. His sudden death in April 2006 has been an inestimable loss to the academic community. The empirical depth of Chandavarkar’s scholarship stood out amongst his contemporaries. The impact of his work on the field remains to be assessed.
This roundtable will focus on several areas where Chandavarkar’s contributions remain significant and offer new directions for future scholarship. His challenge to universalising narratives of world capitalism opened up new ways of understanding the social spaces, political choices and organising strategies of urban working classes. Larger formations such as class and nationalist politics articulated with everyday relations amongst women, migrants and the urban poor. The earlier importance given to the workplace as the primary site of class mobilisation gave way to a wider understanding of how the spaces of the neighbourhood and countryside enabled workers to engage in urban politics. His attention to social organisation emphasised the shifting nature of class and community identities in the context of mass action, challenging functionalist conceptions of social structure and political agency.
This roundtable will situate Chandavarkar’s wide-ranging contributions to the historiography of modern South Asia, addressing critiques of his work as well as areas where his interpretations have gained acceptance. This roundtable also points to new directions which his work and mentorship have helped shape amongst his peers and colleagues. The participants include senior historians, younger scholars, and Chandavarkar’s former students from the U.S., U.K. and India.
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