Tides of History? The Indian Ocean Societies
K.N. Chaudhuri concludes our series with an assessment of how valid a tool Marxism (and other -isms) is for interpreting pre-colonial societies in and around the Indian Ocean.
The collapse of scientific socialism as a structuring principle in world politics justifiably raises the question of the validity of Marx's master-model of social dynamics as a tool of historical analysis. Of course, historians have long contested the relevance of the model not just for European history but for Asian and African societies in the past.
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