India and the World in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Set against the subcontinental contest for independence in the first half of the 20th century, this book examines where and how India was placed during a period of global turmoil. This work looks not just at current foreign policy studies but contrasts it with the history and theory of that era, with a focus on cosmopolitanism beyond nationalism.

List of contents

Contributors. Preface. Prologue 1. Geopolitics as the Theory of World Dominion 2. The Imperialism of Anti-Imperialism: The United States and India in the Second World War 3. War and the World: Tagore’s Praxis of the Global from the 1890s to the 1920s 4. From Erode to Volga: Periyar EVR’s Soviet and European Tour, 1932 5. The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy 6. India–ar and the World: Tagore’s Pm USSR, 1946–49: A False Start?. Index

About the author

Madhavan K. Palat has been Editor, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, New Delhi, since 2011. He was earlier National Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Visiting Professor of Imperial Russian History at the University of Chicago, and taught Russian and European History from 1974 to 2004 at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published on Russian social, literary and political history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has edited Social Identities in Revolutionary Russia (2001) and co-edited the History of Civilizations of Central Asia, vol. 6 (2005). His recent articles include, ‘The Grand Inquisitor and the Holy Fool,’ Foundation Day Lecture, ICHR, 2014, and ‘The Interesting Ideas of Eric Hobsbawm,’ NMML Occasional Paper, 2013.

Summary

Set against the subcontinental contest for independence in the first half of the 20th century, this book examines where and how India was placed during a period of global turmoil. This work looks not just at current foreign policy studies but contrasts it with the history and theory of that era, with a focus on cosmopolitanism beyond nationalism.

Product details

• Authors: Madhavan K. Palat, Madhavan K. (Editor Palat
• Assisted by: Madhavan K. Palat (Editor), Madhavan K. (Editor Palat (Editor), Palat Madhavan K. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138282568
• ISBN: 978-1-138-28256-8
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, Politics and government, Asian History, Society and culture: general, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Civil service and public sector, Civil Service & Public Sector, HISTORY / Asia / South / General