ABSTRACT
Not until they had gone into exile in England after the failure of the 1848 revolutions were Marx and Engels to embark on any sustained and regular analysis of developments in the non-European world. The relative lack of preoccupation with the non-European world at this stage of Marx's and Engels’ activity is, after all, scarcely surprising, since it was in the far more promising and freshly turned soil of Europe in 1848-9 that they expected a new social order to arise. Developments in 1848, however, had shown that Marx and Engels were well aware that, if the working-man had no country and should thus unite with the proletarians of all lands, the forces opposing the working-men's struggle were perfectly capable of engaging in international collaboration also. The bulk of Marx's writings on colonialism is devoted to British colonialism, particularly as it existed in India.
