East of empire : Egypt, India, and the world between the wars / Erin M. B. O'Halloran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Halloran, Erin M. B., author.

Series:

Stanford British histories.

Stanford British Histories Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Environmental aspects.

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

From the outset of the twentieth century, Egyptian and Indian leaders understood their movements for self-determination as linked and part of a shared project. Following World War I, as connections between the Middle East and South Asia proliferated, Egypt and India lay squarely at the heart of increasingly complex and multilateral relations. East of Empire traces how anticolonial nationalism gained momentum across the East and documents the friendships, rivalries, cultural exchanges, and shifting political alliances that came to animate the interwar project of Easternism: a cosmopolitan vision of the world whose center of gravity lay beyond Europe, in the great city of Cairo. Erin O'Halloran offers a compelling new account of the era immediately preceding decolonization and the epochal partitions of India and Palestine. Alongside well-known figures like Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Saad Zaghlul, she introduces less familiar but no less intriguing personalities: feminists, diplomats, and poets; surrealists, socialists and spies. Each dreamed, wrote, organized and fought for the liberation of the East—a space universally evoked, though seemingly impossible to pin down. Drawing on a broad cross-section of Indian, Arab, British, and European sources, East of Empire transcends archival partitions to tell a powerful and nearly forgotten set of stories about the rise of anticolonial nationalism and the end of empire across the Middle East and South Asia.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-title

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Maps

Introduction

Part I. Imagining the East

1. Morning in Cairo

2. Whose Caliphate?

3. The Poetic East

Part II. Capital of the East

4. Abyssinia in the Headlines

5. Palestine HQ

Part III. Ambassadors of the East

6. The Diplomats

7. The Delegation

8. The Feminists

Part IV. The East at War

9. Hearts and Minds

10. No Way Back

Epilogue. Midnight in Delhi

Dramatis Personae

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Series Page

Back Cover.

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ISBN:

9781503641457

1503641457