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Created: March 10, 2002
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Ahmed on Marx and Said

Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, March 2002.
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Aijaz Ahmad's "In Theory: Classes, Nations and Literatures" contains an article titled "Marx on India: a Clarification," which serves as a reply to Edward Said, who viewed Marx's early India articles as Orientalist. Ahmad's main goal is to show the context in which Marx's incidental journalistic pieces on India appear. This is totally missing in Said's treatment of the subject. Said quotes the famous paragraph from an June 10, 1853 Herald Tribune piece that described Indian village life as superstition-ridden and stagnant.

Reply to Van Gosse on India by Louis Proyect. 15 January 2002. Link added march 22, 2002.

Aijaz Ahmad on Marx's India articles Link added march 22, 2002.