M.N. Roy: Cosmopolitanism and Colonial Marxism
The struggle against colonialism is not always led by nationalist or partisan groups. Sometimes it is led by cosmopolitans who are located between different social worlds. M.N. Roy was both a revolutionary and a major force in the rise of Indian communism.
Reviews for Cosmopolitan Thought Zones
“Manjapra’s corrective of Roy will prove critical for future work in anticolonial intellectual history. His notion of colonial cosmopolitanism is especially suggestive for thinking about those figures relegated to historical obscurity.”
