The present volume puts together his essays spanning six decades, from 1937 to 1996. Included in the volume are classic essays such as The Question of Land Tenure in Malabar , A Short History of the Peasant Movement in Kerala , Caste Conflict versus Growing Unity of Popular Democratic Forces , Marxism, Leninism and Bourgeois Judiciary , Adi Shankara and his Philosophy: A Marxist View , The Class Character of the Nineteenth Century Renaissance in India and The Marxist Theory of Grou