Resumen de Bhutams of Marx and the movement of self-respecters

M.H. Baxter

• By examining the first Tamil translation of The Communist Manifesto, this article suggests that the field of comparative political theory may best be understood as the study of how theoretical articulations in one part of the world can further, while being furthered by, the political concerns in another. This examination focuses on how Non-Brahmins in colonial South India embraced communism, the ways in which this embrace was opaque to the British, and the possibility that their rendering of 'spectre' informs concerns with place rather than time.