Notes on Indian History

Excerpt from Notes on Indian History, 664 1858

From the fifties on, Marx carefully studied India as a colonial country where diverse forms and methods of colo nial rule and plunder had been practised. He also took interest in India because she still retained, to a certain degree, relations peculiar to primitive communal society.

However changing the political aspect of India’s past must appear, her social condition has remained unaltered since her remotest antiquity, until the first decennium of the 19th century, Marx wrote in The British Rule in India, Selected Works, English edition, Moscow, Vol. I, p.

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