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which only began taking shape during the 1950s, with the drafting of Grundrisse.
8. Prabhat Patnaik, "The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years," in Prakash Karat (ed), A World to Win: Essays on the Communist Manifesto (Delhi, LeftWord, 1999).
9. Letter to F. Danielson (1881) in Marx &t Engels, On Colonialism: Articles from the 'New York Herald Tribune' and other Writings (New York, international Publishers, 1972), p 339. See, for more extended comment on Marx's detailed understanding of colonial plunder, Irfan Habib, "Marx's Perception of India," in Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception (Delhi, Tulika, 1995) and my "Marx on India" in In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (London 1992; Delhi 1995).
10. See On Colonialism.
11. Letter to Engels, 1858.
12. For a lengthier discussion of these points, see my "Imperialism and Progress," in Lineages of the Present (Delhi, Tulika, 1996).