20 SOCIAL SCIENTIST It should be clear, of course, that this attitude applies to Indian nationalities alone. It does not sanction the absorption of any other nationality (for example, Sikkim) into India. : J V Stalin, "Marxism and the National Question", Collected Works, Moscow 1953, Vol II,p 307. a Cf. "Note on the National Question^ adopted by the 9th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), para 4. 8 R P Dutt, India Today, 1947. 4 J Nehru, The Discovery of India, London 1956, p 282. 5 E M S Namboodiripad, The National Question in Kerala, Bombay 1952, pp 51—58. 6 Indian Council of Historical Research, Indian Historical Review, I, 1, p 47. Cf. E M S Namboodiripad, op. cit., p 59: "The great Shivaji and other national heroes were coming out as the champions of a new form of social and state organization— an organization based on national language and national culture—although many of them were also national oppressors in relation to nationalities other than their own" (Emphasis added) 7 I have attempted a detailed examination of the "Potentialities of Capitalistic Development in Mughal India^ in Enquiry NS Vol III, No 3. 8 Cf. "Note on the National Question," 9th Congress of CPI (M), para 7. 9 See "Amended Programme of the CPI(M)", as adopted at the 9th Congress, Section. 88.