Comrades against Imperialism

Nehru, India, and Interwar Internationalism

Michele L. Louro

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781108419307
• eBook ISBN: 9781108321594
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

In this book Michele L. Louro compiles the debates, introduces the personalities, and reveals the ideas that seeded Jawaharlal Nehru's political vision for India and the wider world. Set between the world wars, this book argues that Nehru's politics reached beyond India in order to fulfill a greater vision of internationalism that was rooted in his experiences with anti-imperialist and anti-fascist mobilizations in the 1920s and 1930s. Using archival sources from India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, and Russia, the author offers a compelling study of Nehru's internationalism as well as contributes a necessary interwar history of institutions and networks that were confronting imperialist, capitalist, and fascist hegemony in the twentieth-century world. Louro provides readers with a global intellectual history of anti-imperialism and Nehru's appropriation of it, while also establishing a history of a typically overlooked period.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Text and Transliteration
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Nehru and the Interwar World
• Part I Mobilizing against Empire, 1927–1930
• Part II Afterlives of Anti-Imperialism
• Bibliography
• Index