India in the World - 1500 to the Present

The book examines the range of connections between India and the world in a truly global perspective.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1. Movement of Peoples, Things and Ideas 1. Servile Labor in India in a Global Context, 1500-1900 2. Woven, Mined, Milled, and Packed: The Global Destinies of Indian Commodities, 1500-2023 3. The News of 1857: The Indian Uprising and Belize during Yucatán's Caste War Part 2. State Repression and Transnational Resistance 4. Would You Deprive Him of Toddy?': Singapore's English-language Press, and the Racialization of Alcohol Consumption by Indians, 1900-1960 5. Conspiracy in Meerut: A Global History of Colonial India, 1929-1933 6. INonviolence and Nonalignment: Indian Foreign Policy and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1936-1964 Part 3. Decolonization and Afro-Asian Solidarities 7. Mohandas the Man, Mahatma the Legend: Gandhian Legacies Outside the Subcontinent 8. To the Students: Education for Nonviolence in the World 9. A Bombay Periodical, Indian Non-Alignment & Afro-Asian Internationalism

About the author

Rajeshwari Dutt is Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. Her research examines race in Latin American and British Imperial history. Her latest book is Empire on Edge: The British Struggle for Order in Belize during Yucatán's Caste War, 1847-1901 (2020).
Nico Slate is Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. His research examines struggles against racism and imperialism in the United States and India. His most recent book is Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race (2023).

Product details

• Authors: Rajeshwari Slate Dutt
• Assisted by: Rajeshwari Dutt (Editor), Slate Nico (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032494654
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249465-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, General & world history, Economic history, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Asia / South / General