Beyond borders : Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 / Heather Goodall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodall, Heather, author.

Series:

Asian history ; 7.

Asian history ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-racism.

Anti-imperialist movements.

Asia--Politics and government--1945-.

Asia.

Politics and government.

Anti-imperialist movements--Indonesia.

Anti-imperialist movements--India.

Anti-imperialist movements--Australia.

Anti-racism--Indonesia.

Anti-racism--India.

Anti-racism--Australia.

Indonesia--History--Revolution, 1945-1949.

Indonesia.

History.

Australia.

India.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

383 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950' rediscovers an intense internationalism - and charts its loss - in the Indonesian Revolution. Momentous far beyond Indonesia itself, and not just for elites, generals, or diplomats, the Indonesian anti-colonial struggle from 1945 to 1949 also became a powerful symbol of hope at the most grassroots levels in India and Australia. As the news flashed across crumbling colonial borders by cable, radio, and photograph, ordinary men and women became caught up in in the struggle. Whether seamen, soldiers, journalists, activists, and merchants, Indonesian independence inspired all of them to challenge colonialism and racism. And the outcomes were made into myths in each country through films, memoirs, and civic commemorations. But as heroes were remembered, or invented, this 1940s internationalism was buried behind the hardening borders of new nations and hostile Cold War blocs, only to reemerge as the basis for the globalisation of later years.

Contents:

Part I Seeing the Region

1 Everybody's Revolution p. 21

Internationalism and nationalism p. 23

Forces for mobility p. 27

Sources for the voices of workers, lascars, and sepoys p. 37

2 Connections and Mobility p. 47

Colonial armies p. 48 / Clarrie Campbell

Cargoes - Indentured labourers and coolies p. 53

Traders p. 57 / T.D. Kundan and Clarrie Campbell

Seamen p. 63

Australian perceptions p. 64

Indian perceptions p. 69

Who were the Indian seamen? p. 74

Working together: Indian and Chinese seamen's unions p. 75

Part II An Asian War

3 Dangerous Oceans: Merchant Seamen and War p. 81

The Silksworth dispute, 1937 p. 82

The Dalfram and Pig-Iron Bob, 1938 p. 85

The Indian strikes of 1939 p. 87 / Komalam Craig

The Atlantic Charter, 14 August 1941 p. 97

Continued Chinese activism p. 98 / Fred Wong

Exiled Indonesian seamen p. 100 / Tuk Subianto

Building networks p. 102

4 Home and Away: Invaded or Under Arms p. 103

Home: Living in the Japanese-occupied Indies p. 104

Away: The Indian Army in Burma p. 111 / P.R.S. Mani

5 Sharing the Home Front: Wartime Australia as Transnational Space p. 121

War leads to rising awareness p. 127

The India-Australia Association p. 130 / Clarrie Campbell

The famine p. 132

The Indian Seamen's Social Club p. 134 / Phyllis Johnson

Indonesians in Australia p. 143 / Mohammad Bondan, Haryono

Part III The Boycott of Dutch Shipping

6 Boycotting Colonialism: Supporting Indonesian Independence hi Australia p. 153

Visions of new worlds p. 154 / Abdul Rehman and Dasrath Singh

Black-banning Dutch ships, 1945-47 p. 156

7 Seeing the Boycott in the Australian Press p. 173

Indonesian Independence in Australia p. 173

The available stereotypes in Australian media p. 180

The Boycott in Australia p. 182

8 Indian Perspectives: The Boycott as Anticolonialism p. 189

The press inside India p. 189

Forging a union p. 203

Part IV Fighting Two Empires

9 'Surabaya Burns': Assault on a Republican City p. 209

Indian troops arrive in Indonesia p. 210 / P.R.S. Mani

Surabaya, the Republican port city p. 212 / T.D. Kundan

The 49th Infantry arrives p. 214

The unacceptable British ultimatum p. 224

10 Frenzied Fanatics: Seeing Battle and Boycott in Australia p. 233

Sources of news in the Australian press p. 234

Narrowing the focus p. 241

Indians challenge this imagery: Filming the Boycott p. 244

11 'The Acid Test': Seeing Surabaya in India p. 251

Local issues p. 255

Events of the Battle p. 258

Bombardment narrows the focus p. 263

'Extremists' p. 266

Absent voices p. 269

12 Breaking the Boycott p. 273

Labour unity splinters p. 275

BBad nullies p. 278 / Clarrie Campbell

Message read p. 286 / Kapila Khandvala

Re-focusing on Indonesia p. 289 / Molly Bondan

Bringing back the Asian Articles p. 293

13 Trading for Freedom p. 295

Freedom and censorship: weighing the costs p. 296

The rice deal p. 301 / T.D. Kundan

Protecting Indian soldiers p. 305 / P.R.S. Mani

14 Transnational Visions p. 313

The tightening Dutch blockade p. 314

To trade or not to trade... p. 316

Trade after the Partition of India p. 322

Asian Airlines disaster p. 323 / Fred Wong

Activists in exile p. 327 / Clarrie Campbell

15 Remembering Heroes p. 333

Remembering heroes p. 343

Visions and afterlives p. 347.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9462981450

9789462981454

OCLC:

1031460680