**Dear Comrade Datta,**

I have read your theses. Let us not dispute about social classes. I think we should adhere to my theses on the colonial question. Gather statistical data on peasant unions, if such exist in India.

Yours...

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Written August 26, 1921

First published in 1952 in the book

Bhupendranath Datta *Dialectics of Land-economics of India*. Calcutta

Translated from English

Printed according to the text of the book