...time immemorial. . . . The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about the breaking up and divisions of kingdoms ; while the village remains entire, they...devolves ; its internal economy remains unchanged." * In the Province of Bombay, it was reported in 1 8 1 9 that " these communities contain in miniature...

...disease, the same name, the same limits, the same interests, and even the same families have continued for ages. The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about the breaking up and divisions of kingdoms; while the village remains entire, they care not to what power it is transferred...

...famine, and disease, the same name, the same limits, and even the same families, have continued for ages. The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about...economy remains unchanged ; the potail is still the head-inhabitant, and still acts as the petty magistrate.' Costume. — This is in these numerous nationalities...

...though in 1812 the Fifth Report clearly recorded : " The village remains entire, they (the inhabitants) care not to what power it is transferred or to what sovereign it devolves; the potail is still the head inhabitant, and still acts as the petty judge and magistrate and collector...

...though in 1812 the Fifth Report clearly recorded : " The village remains entire, they (the inhabitants) care not to what power it is transferred or to , what sovereign it devolves ; the potail is still the head inhabitant, and still acts as the petty judge and magistrate and collector...

...local potentate. Imperial rule over India continued, in Marx's words, as long as "The inhabitants gave themselves no trouble about the breaking up and division...while the village remains entire, they care not to which power it is transferred, or to what sovereign it devolves; its internal economy remains unchanged,...

...System of Ciri! Government (London, 1852), pp. 84-85, which said with reference to Indian villages: "The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about...devolves; its internal economy remains unchanged." Marx, Capital, 1:393-94. The same House of Commons report is quoted by Marx at somewhat greater length...

...unchangeableness of Asiatic societies.173 Marx quoted Sir Stamford Raffles, former governor of Java: "The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about...devolves; its internal economy remains unchanged." With an unchanging social structure, the Oriental despot personified the state. Only one fleeting reference...

...seldom altered . . . the inhabitants gave themselves no trouble about the breaking up and divisions of kingdoms, while the village remains entire, they...devolves, its internal economy remains unchanged. Karl Marx8 Bengal's villages, prior to British conquest as discussed later in this work, were integrated...

...produced. Marx makes an effort to describe this apoliticism of a basic subsistence agricultural society: "While the village remains entire, they care not to...devolves; its internal economy remains unchanged." 90 For Marx, such a society is not vulnerable to social revolution. Indeed Marx's concept of the "Asiatic...