Indian criticism of British colonial economics predates Marx.

Evidence

2. Some awareness of this fact in sections of even the British-educated intelligentsia in India is virtually as old as colonialism itself, and thus predates Marx. Criticisms of the British land settlement and revenue system are already there in Rammohun Roy and his colleagues. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 732

Categorization

• XREF: Undercuts the claim that anti-colonial critique begins with Marx or Western theory — an original-nationalist genealogy that parallels the chapter’s larger argument. — connects to: Anti-imperialist historians of India contradict the portrayal of Marx as an Orientalist

Related

• Anti-imperialist historians of India contradict the portrayal of Marx as an Orientalist (similarity 0.84)
• Marx’s dispatches on India require contextual scholarship, not summary dismissal (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-colonial critique before Said was overwhelmingly Marxist-affiliated (similarity 0.79)
• Marx’s Indian writings were conjectural, not theoretical (similarity 0.79)
• Marxist historians made theoretical Indian history possible beyond rulers and religions (similarity 0.78)
• Marx’s picture of pre-colonial India rested on largely fanciful claims about its economy. (similarity 0.78)