Das Kapital in the British Library, London. At the time of his death (1883), Marx had prepared the manuscript for "Das Kapital, Volume IV", a critical history of theories of surplus value of his time, the nineteenth century. The philosopher Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) published a partial edition of Marx's surplus-value critique and later published a full, three-volume edition as "Theorien über den Mehrwert" ("Theories of Surplus Value", 1905–1910). The first volume was published in English as "A History of Economic Theories" (1952). "Capital, Volume I" (1867) was published in Marx’s lifetime, but he died in 1883 before completing the manuscripts for "Capital,
Muppala Ranganayakamma the "Marx Capital parichayam", an introduction to Marx's "Das Kapital" in 3 volumes. The first volume was published in 1978 and there were no Telugu translations of "Das Kapital" available at that time. She wrote a three-volume novel "Janaki Vimukti" (meaning ""Emanicipation of Janaki""), arguing that Marxism is the correct path to gender equality. The most outstanding feature of Ranganayakamma's writings is that she writes in the most lucid manner, and even her opponents acknowledge this fact. Her readers and friends maintain a website (www.ranganayakamma.org) hosting details of her works. She won the Andhra Pradesh Government Sahitya Akademi Award for