Hamza Alavi
Hamza Alavi (10 April 1921 – 1 December 2003) was an academic sociologist and activist with adherence to Marxism. [1] He was born in Bohra community in Karachi, the then British India which now constitutes Pakistan and eventually migrated to London.[1] The focus of his academic work was nationality, gender, fundamentalism and the peasantry. His most noted work was perhaps his 1965 essay Peasant And Revolution in the Socialist Register which stressed the militant role of the middle peasantry. These middle peasants were then viewed as the class in the rural areas which were most naturally the allies of the urban working class. In the 1960s he was one of the co-founders of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination.[1][2][3]
Selected publications
- Hamza Alavi, 1965 Peasant and Revolution, Socialist Register, pp. 241–7
- Alavi, Hamza & Shanin, Teodor (2003) Introduction to the Sociology of "Developing Societies", Monthly Review Press[4]
- Capitalism and Colonial Production: Essays on the Rise of Capitalism in Asia by Hamza Alavi, P. L. Burns, G. R. Knight, Croom Helm
- South Asia by Hamza Alavi, John Harriss, New York Univ Pr
- (1988) State and Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan by Fred Halliday, Hamza Alavi, Monthly Review Press
References
- ^ a b c "Hamza Alavi". The Guardian.com. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/dec/19/guardianobituaries.race. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ^ http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-12-2003_pg3_2
- ^ Brass, Tom (2004) Hamza Alavi (1921–2003) Journal of Peasant Studies, 1743-9361, Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 341 – 344
- ^ R S Pannu (1985) Review of Introduction to the Sociology of 'Developing Societies' by Hamza Alavi; Teodor Shanin, Third World Quarterly, Jan., vol. 7, no. 1, p. 162-164
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Alavi, Hamsa |
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10 April 1921 |
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1 December 2003 |
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