Indian scholars book wins Deutscher prize

Updated on: Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Mumbai-based scholar Jairus Banaji won the prestigious Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize for his book, 'Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation'.
 
The announcement was made in London during the 2011 Deutscher Memorial Lecture by Professor David Harvey here.
 
The Deutscher award is given to a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing on or about the Marxist tradition. Banaji's book straddles four decades of work in historiography and Marxist theory.
 
An alumni of the universities of Delhi and Oxford, Banaji was a prominent figure in the radical movement in the sixties in England.
 
Banaji's book was among three short-listed for the prize.
 
The other two books were Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory, by Gail Day; and The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877, by Charles Post.

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