Marx made Indian emancipation conditional on British or Indian class upheaval.

Evidence

The Indian will not reap the fruits of the new elements of society scattered among them by the British bourgeoisie, till in Great Britain itself the new ruling classes shall have been supplanted by the indusuial proletariat, or till the Hindus themselves shall have grown strong enough tO throw off the English yoke altogether. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1059

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly feeds the ‘On Sacrifice/colonial paradox’ style argument: the colonized’s deliverance is deferred to a metropolitan class revolution — a materialist refusal of discourse-first emancipations.
• QUESTION: Does this conditional redemption of the ‘double mission’ work as a model of anti-essentialist but not discourse-substituting critique that Ahmad would endorse?
• XREF: connects to: Marx’s Indian writings were conjectural, not theoretical — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 982; Marx linked resolving India’s class question to dismantling its caste system — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 468; Marx’s colonial writings were conjectural speculation, not worked-out theory — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 438

Broader Connections

• Marx’s Indian writings were conjectural, not theoretical #qualifies (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 982
• Marx’s colonial writings were conjectural speculation, not worked-out theory #qualifies (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 438
• Marx linked resolving India’s class question to dismantling its caste system #expands (0.70) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 468