When a particular civil society creates fresh productive powers elsewhere to absorb its overaccumulated capital, it thereby establishes a rival center of accumulation which, at some point in the future, must also look to its own spatial fix to resolve its problems. Marx thought he saw the first step down such a path as the British exported capital to India. But the transition which Marx anticipated there was blocked by a mixture of internal resistance to capitalist penetration and imperialist policies imposed by the British. The latter were, by and large, specifically geared to preventing the rise of India as a competitor (Harvey 8).
Harvey, David. “The spatial fix–Hegel, von Thunen, and Marx.” Antipode 13.3 (1981): 1-12.