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AIJAZ AHMAD is a leading Marxist thinker, critic and commentator. Currently he is Visiting Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has previously taught at the City University of New York and Rutgers University, in the United States. He has published and lectured widely around the world.

Among his books are 'Ghazals of Ghalib' ; 'In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures' ; 'Lineages of the Present: Political Essays'. His forthcoming book is titled 'Whose Century, Whose Millennium: Reflections on Our Times'.

• Iraq, Afghanistan & The Imperialism of Our Time
Twelve articles included in this book offer a wealth of factual detail and analysis covering the background of US policy, preparation and execution of the two wars, and the re-emergence of resistance in the two countries. This is followed by the essay The Imperialism of Our Time.

• On Communalism and Globalization - Offensives of the Far Right
In three celebrated lectures, extensively re-worked since they were delivered first, Prof. Aijaz Ahmad discusses the progress of neo-imperialism and the increasing influence of fascism in the third world societies and critically evaluates their resources - cultural, social and ideological.

• Ghazals of Ghalib
This imaginative approach to the work of Urdu poet Ghalib presents highly original renderings, made by seven well-known American poets, of Ghalib's ghazals. Editor Aijaz Ahmad began by selecting thirty-seven of the ghazals for literal translation. These versions were then given to the American poets who made poetic interpretations of

• On the National and Colonial Question
Marx and Engel were first drawn into political militancy on the issue of the national unification of their native land, Germany, and the creation of a democratic republic there to replace monarchical autocracy. They had begun studying the colonial question in diverse countries from Ireland to India and China, as well as the national question in several European countries such as Poland, in their youth.

• In Theory - Classes, Nations, Literatures
This work provides incisive analyses of the principal developments in literary theory since the 1960s, of the concept of Indian literature, of the genealogy of the term Third World, and of the conditions under which so-called colonial discourse theory emerged in metropolitan intellectual circles.

• Iraq, Afghanistan and The Imperialism of Our time
The articles in this volume offer a wealth of factual detail and analysis covering the background of US policy, preparation and execution of the two wars, and the re-emergence of resistance in the two countries. A lengthy introduction and a brief note on the captivity of Saddam Hussein by the US forces brings the story up to mid-December 2003.

• A World to Win - Essays on the Communist Manifesto
Edited, with an introduction by Prakash Karat, the present volume contains essays by three of India's foremost Marxist scholars, Aijaz Ahmad, Irfan Habib and Prabhat Patnaik, who explain the relevance of the Manifesto in terms of Marxist theory and praxis.

• Lineages of the Present - Political Essays
Blending theoretical concerns with historical narratives, this work covers the main political concerns of our time: Imperialism and nationalism; classes and ideologies; democracy, dictatorship, and fascism.

• A World to Win - Essays on the Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is among the most widely read and disseminated texts in the world. It has been more influential in the making of the modern world than any other piece of political writing. Edited, with an introduction by Prakash Karat, the present volume contains essays by three of India's foremost Marxist scholars, Aijaz Ahmad, Irfan Habib and Prabhat Patnaik, who explain the relevance of the Manifesto in terms of Marxist theory and praxis.

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