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16 NOTES TO CHAPTER I
production. India showed a series of parallel forms which cannot be put into the precise
categories, for the mode based on slavery is absent, feudalism greatly different from
the European type with serfdom and the manorial economy.
15. Marx and Engels on India may be studied best in a careful edition of their
utterances on Britain (Moscow 1953). An undated, poorly annotated edition was issued
under the signature of Mulk Raj Anand at Allahabad between 1934 and 1938 as number
4 of the Socialist Book Club Publications. It is rather curious to read today that R.
Palme Dutt, Edgell Rickward, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Sajjad Zaheer, P. C. Joshi and
Z. A. Ahmad helped the editor. Messrs. Subhas Chandra Bose, Narendra Deva,
Jayaprakash Narayan, M. R. Masani, Rammanohar Lohia were foundation members
of the club. None of them saw fit to warn the reader that the work is incomplete
without addition of later studies by Marx and Engels on primitive society. This lack of
depth may explain the later political vicissitudes of this strange company, of almost
every one of whom may be said, quantum matatus ab illo.
16. See Benjamin Farrington, Modern Quarterly 7, 1951-2, pp. 83-6.
17. Werner Sombart : A new social philosophy (trans. Princeton, 1937). The
quotation is from p. xi of the preface, dated Berlin 1934.
18. The choicest mess of this sort was cooked up by Spongier in his
Preassentum und Sozialismus (MUnchen 1920), but H. A. L. Fisher’s History of
Europe shows quite as pathetic a philosophy, and Arnold Toynbee’s ten volumes
on the philosophy of history make history immaterial.
19. Particularly, The origin of the family, private property, and the state. Marx’s
own study of the peasant communes : The Mark, is also valuable.