From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Mon Mar 19 2007 - 04:05:35 EDT
>Rakesh, thank you for this. It is indeed very interesting. >Yours, Dogan Pomeranz argues that Bagchi's definition of capitalism is too expansive but it does not offer a rival one. It also seems to me that he is blinded by formal similarities between say pre colonial and colonial systems of debt peonage. I am hoping that Bagchi writes a reply. I am ambivalent about Pomeranz's criticism of Bagchi's multi-leveled attack on the essentially apartheid myth of the pristine West by showing various levels of cultural and economic influence of the East on the West. Myth deconstruction is important but perhaps it does interfere with objective causal analysis. I also recently purchased Jack Goody's Theft of History. Rakesh
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