Newsletter - International Gramsci Society

• a “Gramsci Centenary Seminar” organized by the Nehru Memorial Museum and
Library, New Delhi in 1993.
Besides, a number of special issues devoted to Gramsci were brought out by the
following scholarly journals in social sciences at regular intervals: Indian Left Review, vol. I,
no. 12, 1973; Economic and Political Weekly, vol. XXXIII, no. 5, 1988; Socialist Perspective,
vol. XVI, no. 1-2, 1988; Society and Change, vol. VIII, nos. 3-4, 1991-92.
Furthermore, one can have an idea of how the Indian scholars have responded to
Gramsci from the following list (which, however, is not exhaustive) of articles published in
different journals during the last three decades:
Susobhan Sarkar, “Thought of Gramsci,” Mainstream, 2 November 1968;
Sobhanlal Dutta Gupta, “Gramsci’s Theory of Politics,” Indian Left Review, vol. I, no.12,
1973;
Mohit Sen, “Leninism of Gramsci,” Marxist Miscellany, no. 5, 1974;
Asok Sen, “The Frontiers of Prison Notebooks,” Economic and Political Weekly,
vol.XXXIII, no.5, 1988;
K. Saldanha, “Antonio Gramsci and the Analysis of Class Consciousness,” ibid.;
Arun Kumar Patnaik, “Gramsci’s Concept of Common Sense: Towards a Theory of
Subaltern Consciousness in Hegemony Process,” ibid;
Partha Chatterjee, “On Gramsci’s Fundamental Mistake,” ibid.;
Ajit Chaudhury, “From Hegemony to Counter-Hegemony: A Journey in a Non-
Imaginary Real Space,” ibid.;
Bholanath Bandyopadhyay, “Antonio Gramsci and Sociology,” Socialist Perspective,
vol.XVI, no.1-2, 1988;
Sunil Sen, “Thought of Gramsci: Agrarian Question, Revolutionary Strategy, and
Contemporary Asia,” ibid.;
Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay, “Gramsci’s Idealism,” ibid.;
Sudipta Kaviraj, “A Critique of the Passive Revolution,” Economic and Political Weekly,
vol.XXXIII, no.45-47, 1988;
Arun Bose, “Antonio Gramsci and Dialectics,” Society and Change, vol. VIII, no.3-4,
1991-92;
Kalyan Kumar Sanyal, “On Revolutions, Classical and Passive,” ibid.
That Gramsci’s ideas continue to have an evergrowing impact is especially evidenced
by the fact that already an initiative has been taken by a group of scholars working in
Calcutta (incidentally, Calcutta happens to be the traditional centre of radicalism in India) to
introduce Gramsci to the popular masses by translating the writings of and about Gramsci in
Bengali.The first step in this direction was taken with the publication of Ajit Ray, Antonio
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