South Asia Unbound

New International Histories of the Subcontinent

Elisabeth Leake, Bérénice Guyot-Réchard

• Publisher: Leiden University Press
• Year: 2023
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9789400604544
• Subtopic: Globalisation
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Introduction. South Asia Unbound
• Part I. (Inter)national Orders and State Futures
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. A Thwarted “Westphalian Moment” in South Asia? The Triple Alliance against Tipu Sultan
• Chapter 2. “Nothing in Common with ‘Indian’ India:” Bhutan and the Cabinet Mission Plan
• Chapter 3. Extra-territorial Self-determination: East African Decolonization and the Indian Annexation of Goa
• Part II. From the Transimperial to the International: Lived Uncertainties
• Introduction
• Chapter 4. Battlefields to Borderlands: Rohingyas between Global War and Decolonization
• Chapter 5. Other Partitions: Migrant Geographies and Disconnected Histories between India and Malaya, 1945-1965
• Chapter 6. Re-Uniting Split Families: The 1972 Ugandan Asian Refugees and the Internationalization of an Imperial Diaspora
• Part III. South Asian Roots of the International
• Introduction
• Chapter 7. An “Indian Hermes” between Paris and the Pacific: Kalidas Nag, Greater India, and the Quest for a Global Humanism
• Chapter 8. Fellow Travelers: Global Decolonization and Gandhian Peace Work
• Chapter 9. The Islamist International in Lahore: The Jamaat-i Islami, the Middle East, and the Quest for an Islamic State
• Part IV. Ambivalences and Sensibilities of Internationalism
• Introduction
• Chapter 10. Hindu Nationalism in the International: B.S. Moonje’s Travel Writing at the Round Table Conference
• Chapter 11. Culture and Progressivism in Pakistan, ca. 1950s-1970s
• Chapter 12. Radio’s Internationalism: A View from Modern Afghanistan
• Chapter 13. South Asian Diasporic Connections and Afro-Asian Solidarities in the Life of Phyllis Naidoo
• Afterword
• Index