Tuesday 15 January 2008

The burden of the poor

India is the Utopia of social order for the aristocracy: in Europe the poor carry the rich upon their shoulders, but it is only metaphorically; here it is without figure. Instead of workers & consumers, or governed & governors - the subtle distinction of European politics - in India there are only the carried & the carrying, which is much clearer

Victor Jacquemont: Letters From India 1834

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