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Write short note : Primitive Communism.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Religion and Society in India

Three long Indian arguments run back to this concept: whether tribal clan tenure was classless, whether India had feudalism, and whether the Forest Rights Act recovers a commons. Primitive communism is the baseline for all three — the first mode of production in the materialist scheme, against which every later system of stratification is a…

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  • The concept in historical materialism
  • The critiques
  • The Indian question: did the type exist here?
  • Conclusion

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