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Urban Class and Communal Consciousness in Colonial Punjab: The Genesis of India's Intermediate Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Richard G. Fox
Richard G. Fox
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Duke University
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A cornerstone of Wallerstein's (1974) theory of the capitalist world system is that economic development occurs in certain (core) regions of the world system at the expense of development in other (peripheral) regions. This thesis, accepted in one form or another by scholars following a dependency, neo-Marxist, or unequal exchange conception of economic development (as, for example, Amin 1976 or Laclau 1971; see discussion in Foster-Carter 1973 and Kahn 1980: 203ff) provides the foundation for their avowal of the ‘development of underdevelopment.’ The development of the core industrial capitalist nations required, so they argue, the distorted and repressed economic development of the third world.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 459 - 489
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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