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Essays on Marxism and Asia argues for a humanist theory of civilizations and studies the Parsis or Persians who left Iran to settle in India and make it their home. It locates this humanist theory in the larger genre of the Asiatic mode of production with caste as its sub-text.

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Essays on Marxism and Asia argues for a humanist theory of civilizations and studies the Parsis or Persians who left Iran to settle in India and make it their home. It locates this humanist theory in the larger genre of the Asiatic mode of production with caste as its sub-text.
Autorenporträt
Murzban Jal is Professor and Director at the Centre for Educational Studies, Indian Institute of Education, Pune, India. He was Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla and an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Senior Fellow where he worked on the ethnography of the makings of a minority community in India. He is author of The Seductions of Karl Marx (2010), Zoroastrianism: from Antiquity to the Modern Period, ed. (2012), The New Militants (2014), Why We Are Not Hindus (2015), What Ails Indian Muslims, ed. with Zaheer Ali (2016), Challenges for the Indian Left, ed. (2017), In the Name of Marx (2018), Zarathushtra and the Inmates of Paradise (2018), Yusuf and Zuleika. The Return of the Despot (2019), The Prison House of Alienation, (2019), Theory and Praxis: Reflections on the Colonization of Knowledge, ed. with Jyoti Bawane (2020) and The Legacy of Karl Marx (2020). He has also published more than hundred papers in national and international journals.