February 2009
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It was in England … that the bourgeoisie developed out of Indian gold, the unlimited profits of the Indian trade and, later, Indian wars. The profits of Spain … only strengthened reaction … and moribund feudalism; Portugal hardly fared better from its Eastern trade … The Dutch did progress, but the pressure of Spain and France by land and England by sea was fatal. France was a hundred years too late with its bourgeois revolution. In England alone were the necessary conditions satisfied.
—D. D. Kosambi, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History
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