Anand Chakravarti

Anand Chakravarti
Anand Chakravarti retired as Professor of Sociology at the University of Delhi in 2006. He held the S.K. Dey Chair in Local Government at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, from July 2013 to June 2015. His publications include Contradiction and Change: Emerging Patterns of Authority in a Rajasthan Village (1975) and Social Power and Everyday Class Relations: Agrarian Transformation in North Bihar (2001).
Karl Marx's Capital and the Present
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Jun-ichi Okabe
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Shan Bhattacharya
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Suchetana Chattopadhyay
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Vivek Chibber
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Michael T. Clark
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Ashish Rajadhyaksha
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David Ellerman
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A.G. Noorani
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K. N. Panikkar
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Arindam Dutta
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