South Asia unbound : new international histories of the subcontinent / edited by Bérénice Guyot-Réchard and Elisabeth Leake.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guyot-Réchard, Bérénice, editor.

Leake, Elisabeth, editor.

Series:

Global connections (Leiden University Press) ; 6.

Global connections: routes and roots ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asia--Foreign relations.

South Asia.

South Asia--Politics and government.

Diplomatic relations.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Leiden University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Whose international matters, and why? How are geographic regions constructed? What are the channels of engagement between a place, its people, its institutions, and the world? How do we understand the non-West's influence in contemporary global interactions? From humanitarianism and activism to diplomacy and institutional networks, South Asia has been a crucial place for the elaboration of international politics, even before the twentieth century. South Asia Unbound gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars from across the world to investigate South Asian global engagement at the local, regional, national, and supra-national levels, spanning the time before and after independence. Only by understanding its past entanglements with the world can we understand South Asia's increasing global importance today.

Contents:

Introduction / Elisabeth Leake and Bérénice Guyot-Réchard

Part I. (Inter)national Orders and State Futures

1. A Thwarted "Westphalian Moment" in South Asia? The Triple Alliance against Tipu Sultan / Tanja Bührer

2. "Nothing in Common with 'Indian' India:" Bhutan and the Cabinet Mission Plan / Swati Chawla

3. Extra-territorial Self-determination: East African Decolonization and the Indian Annexation of Goa / Lydia Walker

Part II. From the Transimperial to the International: Lived Uncertainties

4. Battlefields to Borderlands: Rohingyas between Global War and Decolonization / Jayita Sarkar

5. Other Partitions: Migrant Geographies and Disconnected Histories between India and Malaya, 1945-1965 / Kalyani Ramnath

6. Re-Uniting Split Families: The 1972 Ugandan Asian Refugees and the Internationalization of an Imperial Diaspora / Ria Kapoor

Part III. South Asian Roots of the International

7. An "Indian Hermes" between Paris and the Pacific: Kalidas Nag, Greater India, and the Quest for a Global Humanism / Yorim Spoelder

8. Fellow Travelers: Global Decolonization and Gandhian Peace Work / Carolien Stolte

9. The Islamist International in Lahore: The Jamaat-i Islami, the Middle East, and the Quest for an Islamic State / Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Part IV. Ambivalences and Sensibilities of Internationalism

10. Hindu Nationalism in the International: B.S. Moonje's Travel Writing at the Round Table Conference / Stephen Legg

11. Culture and Progressivism in Pakistan, ca. 1950s-1970s / Ali Raza

12. Radio's Internationalism: A View from Modern Afghanistan / Mejgan Massoumi

13. South Asian Diasporic Connections and Afro-Asian Solidarities in the Life of Phyllis Naidoo / Annie Devenish

Afterword / Srinath Raghavan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Online version: South Asia unbound.

ISBN:

9087284098

9789087284091

OCLC:

1374078370

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