Ireland, India and empire: Indo-Irish radical connections, 1919-64

by Kate O'Malley, Andrew Thompson (Editor), John M. MacKenzie (Editor)

Overview

Offering a fresh new perspective on the history of the end of Empire, with the Irish and Indian independence movements as its focus, this book details how each country s nationalist agitators engaged with each other and exchanged ideas. Using previously unpublished sources from the Indian Political Intelligence collection; it chronicles the rise and fall of movements such as the Indian-Irish Independence League and the League Against Imperialism whose histories have, until now, remained deeply hidden in the archives. The maturation of the Indo-Irish nexus documented in this book eventually culminated with the establishment of diplomatic ties between both independent states in the 1960s, yet the British government initially interpreted these transnational links as a potential threat to the Empire and monitored their development through its security services. O Malley highlights opaque aspects of the careers of popular figures from both Irish and Indian history including Subhas Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, Eamon de Valera and Maud Gonne McBride at points when their paths crossed and also looks at how many one-time agitators went on to become international statesmen. This book encompasses aspects of Irish, Indian, British, Imperial and intelligence history and will be of interest to students, teachers and general history enthusiasts alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526118431
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2017
Series:	Studies in Imperialism
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Kate O'Malley works for the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series and is a research associate with the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin
John MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University and holds Honorary Professorships at Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

General editor's introduction ix

Acknowledgements xi

List of illustrations xiii

Abbreviations xv

Introduction 1

1 The communist menace 13

2 V. J. Patel and the Indian–Irish Independence League 53

3 Subhas Chandra Bose and Ireland 90

4 The Second World War and the ‘Vanishing Empire’ 127

5 A Commonwealth republic 156

Conclusion 179

Biographical notes 183

Appendices 191

Bibliography 198

Index 205

Editorial Reviews

"This highly original study shows not only the interchange of ideas and support between Irish and Indian separatists, and their shared ambitions and challenges in seeking emancipation from British rule, but the extent to which the imperial government also studied Irish and Indian nationalism in parallel. The book is consequently an important contribution to the intertwined histories of Ireland, India and the British empire." --Professor Eunan O’Halpin, Trinity College Dublin

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