China-India-Russia Moving Out of Backwardness, or, ‘Cunning Passages of History’
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...Seen in the longue durée, the Trilateral invites the reclaiming of the idea of Eurasia around the fulcrum of Central Asia and the great routes of civilisation, knowledge and commerce that linked the East and West before the rise of the mercantilist, sea-borne empires (cf. Bagchi 2007; Sen 2005)....
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...The triangular trade between China, India and Britain also served as a mechanism for transferring the profits of the empire by the servants of the English East India Company to their home country (for a summary of the mechanisms involved, see Bagchi 1982, chapter 4, section 4.6)....
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...When a big business community emerges in such a society, it on the one hand remains allied to dominant foreign capital, and on the other hand uses the patronage network of the landlord lineages (Bagchi 1982)....
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...As I have argued elsewhere, the British rulers, instead of strengthening such rights weakened them considerably in the interest of collecting and remitting abroad a large part of the income produced by India’s peasantry (Bagchi 1982: chapter 4, 1992)....
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...All ex-colonial developing countries had been adversely affected by this pressure for a long time (Bagchi 1982: chapters 3–4)....
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...…as a decline in birth and death rates (including infant mortality rates), literacy rates and rates of enrolment in secondary and tertiary education (Allen 2003: chapters 6 and 7; Lewin 2005: chapter 22; Mitchell 1998).5 I will not here try to analyse why the Soviet system, despite its enormous…...
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