India and the World from the Great War to the Cold War

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Russell F. Weigley Room, 914 Gladfelter Hall

 

This international workshop is based on the work of scholars who are tracing transnational connections in Indian history in the 20th century, particularly during the decades between the Great War and Cold War. The travels, writings, and political activities of large numbers of Indians and Indian exiles, elite as well as non-elite, had an impact on the political, social and mental horizons of the twentieth-century world. Central to the papers and discussion of this workshop is an interrogation of the meaning and utility of transnational and global frameworks to the study of India. We invite the participants to reflect with us upon the nature of the relevant public spheres that do not observe national boundaries, of the ways in which ideas travel, and of the tensions between the categories (transnational, international, global, and cosmopolitan) that comprised the world views of the historical actors we study. More