South and Southeast Asian socialist internationalisms, c1947-1960 / Tom Shillam

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shillam, Tom, author.

Series:

Global connections (Leiden University Press) ; 16.

Global connections : routes and roots ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--India--History--20th century.

Socialism.

Socialism--Burma--History--20th century.

Socialism--Indonesia--History--20th century.

India.

Burma.

Indonesia.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"This book tells the story of Indian, Burmese, and Indonesian socialists who fleshed out radical imaginaries of regional and global change in hotels and hill stations, commissioning risky flights and organising cantankerous conferences to do so in a rapidly globalising age – the 1950s. These activists took the achievement of independence in their countries to presage systemic political shifts in favour of egalitarianism and democracy which it fell to them to expedite. The work documents a distinctive passage in the history of world socialism and asks scholars to look afresh at the multifaceted agendas that animated actors in what was an experimentative as much as an ideological decade. South and Southeast Asian non-state actors forged internationalisms which moved them, and contemporaries, even as political possibilities narrowed amid climates of Cold War cynicism. These anti-imperial visions merit further historical study if the entwinement of past with present is to be fully appreciated"-- JSTOR

Contents:

Beginnings

Solidarities

Splits

Afterlives

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed July 20, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Shillam, Tom South and Southeast Asian socialist internationalisms, c1947-1960

ISBN:

9789400605480

940060548X

9789400605497

9400605498

OCLC:

1602978658

Access Restriction:

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