58 SOCIAL SCIENTIST dynamics of these societies. Their dependence on the advanced capitalist countries operates directly at the economic level and indirectly through attempts at manipulating the internal class alignments and class forces. Some (otherwise) useful' references on the relationship between imperialism and under development make the error of treating dependence in an absolute sense. See for instance, S Amin^ Accumulation on a World Scale Monthly Review Press, 1976, Vols. I and II. ao A useful introduction to the Indian economy (upto independence) is R P Dutt, India To-day Calcutta, 1948. For the post independence period, the best introduction is C Bettelheim, India Independent Monthly Review Press, New York, 1968.