India could not escape the fate of being conquered [by England], and the whole of her past history, if it be anything, is the history of the successive conquests she has undergone. Indian society has no history at all, at least no known history. What we call its history, is but the history of the successive intruders who founded their empires on the passive basis of that unresisting and unchanging society.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "India could not escape the fate of being conquered [by England], and the whole of her past history, if it be anything, is the history of the successive conquests she has undergone. Indian society has no history at all, at least no known history. What we call its history, is but the history of the successive intruders who founded their empires on the passive basis of that unresisting and unchanging society." in the context of "Karl Marx, “The Future Results of the British Rule in India”, The New York Daily Tribune, 8 August 1853, reproduced in Marx–Engels, The First Indian War of Independence, 1857–1859, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1959, p. 29. quoted in The Problem of Indian History by Michel Danino* (Published in Dialogue, April-June 2012, vol. 13, no. 4)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.