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IN so far as Marx extended his researches in history and society beyond Europe, it was to India, if anywhere, that he devoted a certain amount of special attention. It has to be remembered that at that time ‘India’ covered what today is Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as the modern republic of India; parts of Burma also had already become a province of British India when Marx was writing.
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David McLellan, Karl Marx. His Life and Thought (1976), p. 227.
E. Hobsbawm, Pre-capitalist Economic Formations (1964), p. 22.
S. Avineri, Karl Marx on Colonialism and Modernization (1968), p. 26.
V. G. Kiernan, Marxism and Imperialism (1974), p. 168.
See G. Campbell, Modern India: A Sketch of the System of Civil Government (London, 1852), pp. 84–5 for example.
K. A. Witlfogel, Oriental Despotism (1957), p. 372ff.
Capital Bk. I, ch. 1, pp. 79–81. See K. Marx and F. Engels, On Religion pp. 120f; and Karl Marx, Capital, vol. I (Penguin Books, 1976), pp.172–3.
See Karl Marx, Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy, ed. by T. B. Bottomore and Maximilian Rubel (Pelican Books, 1963), p. 122f.
D. D. Kosambi, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History (1956), pp. 11–12; see also M. N. Srinivas and A. M. Shah, ‘The Myth of the Self-sufficiency of the Indian Village’, The Economic Weekly vol. 12.
David G. Mandelbaum, Society in India (Indian edn, 1970), p. 328.
See Mandelbaum, pp. 425–659; also M. Singer and B. S. Cohn (eds), Structure and Change in Indian Society (1968);
Ramkrishna Mukherjee, The Sociologist and Social Change in India Today (1965), ch. seven: ‘Orientation for Depth Analysis: Role of Tradition in Social Change’.
Anthony Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory (1971), p. 215.
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Ling, T. (1980). Marx and Indian Religion. In: Karl Marx and Religion. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16375-5_5
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