Wide Canvas, Wild Strokes Ranjit Sau tions have four main characteristics in common (i) the predominance of agrarian capitalism in the national sector; (ii) the creation of a local, mainly merchant, bourgeoisie in the wake of dominant foreign capital, (iii) a tendency toward a peculiar bureaucratic development, specific to the contemporary periphery; and (iv) the incomplete, specific character of the phenomenon of proletarianisation.