Description
SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd The Internationalist Moment: South Asia, Worlds, And World Views 1917–39 by Ali Raza and Franziska Roy and Benjamin Zachariah
The years between the First and Second World Wars comprise a critical moment in the history of the world. In the aftermath of the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution, individuals and countries sought new solutions and blueprints for a world of greater stability, equality, and interdependency. Their divergent ends and objectives were held together, if temporarily, by a euphoria for the vastness and integratedness of the world and the desire and optimism to remake it and shape the future of humanity
This volume highlights this period in the political and social mobilization that comprises the “internationalist moment,” through the lens of South Asians’ interactions with a wider world and the wider world’s interactions with South Asia. The essays contribute to a growing, but as yet, inadequate field of the intellectual history of South Asia.
Reviews
“The Internationalist Moment offers a detailed and much-needed study of interwar South Asian quests to transcend locality or the state, not simply physically but also intellectually and politically. ... [The] essays … compel us to refine our often simplistic understanding of ‘global’ or ‘transnational’ historiography.”
Chandak Sengoopta,
Professor of History,Birkbeck College, University of London
“This volume ... is an important corrective to South Asian histories that elide the international context and to international histories that underestimate the role of South Asia.”
Mrinalini Sinha,
Alice Freeman Palmer
Professor of History, University of Michigan
“This is an innovative contribution to the emerging literature on global intellectual history ... [T]he essays … are important for the intrinsic value of the subjects they examine and for the methodological suggestion in favor of ‘intermediary’ intellectual history.”
Sudipta Kaviraj,
Professor, Indian Politics and Intellectual History, Columbia University