Q.Try to find out what Marx and Weber wrote about India.

Marx wrote 1850s newspaper dispatches on British rule in India, developing the idea of an 'Asiatic mode of production'; Weber's The Religion of India examined caste and Hindu religious concepts as part of his comparative study of religion and capitalism. …

Both Marx and Weber engaged with India directly, not only with Europe, and their writings can be traced through the general shape of their larger theories. Marx wrote a set of newspaper articles in the 1850s -- dispatches for an American newspaper -- analysing British colonial rule in India. In line with his broader historical-materialist framework of successive modes of production, Marx discussed what later commentators call an 'Asiatic mode of production': a distinct pattern of village-based agrarian economy and state organisation he saw as characterising India before colonial rule, differing in certain respects from the European sequence of slavery, feudalism and capitalism. His assessment of British colonialism in these writings was double-edged -- he condemned it as exploitative, while also controversially arguing that it was, in his view, unintentionally dissolving older village structures in ways that might eventually open the way for future social change; this specific claim has been extensively debated and criticised by later historians as an example of how far a European theoretical framework can be stretched when applied to a colonised, non-European society. Max Weber's major engagement with India came through his comparative sociology of world religions, published after his death as The Religion of India -- a work listed in this very chapter's own references. There, Weber examined the caste system and core Hindu religious concepts as part of his larger comparative question: why the distinctive 'spirit of capitalism' he linked to Protestant religious ethics in Europe did not develop in the same way in India, connecting his study of Indian religion directly to his ce …