Decolonization and the Struggle for National Liberation in India (1909–1971): Historical, Political, Economic, Religious and Architectural Aspects
Authors:
Thierry di Costanzo, Guillaume Duoeur (editors)
ISBN:
9783631654668
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2014
Pages:
256
Size:
15 x 21 cm
Weight:
430 grams
Price:
INR
3160.00
At the end of the First World War, the Raj remained economically or even strategically more central than ever in the general colonial architecture of the British Empire. Yet, between the two World Wars, the colonial regime hung only by a thread when confronted with the rising popularity of the nationalist movements. As a result, independence was granted in 1947 to this major component of the Empire, a truly cataclysmic event for the remainder of the world. This reality conflicts with the idea that a well-managed, peaceful decolonization process was launched by the British authorities. The independence of British India proceeded at the same speed as the Partition of British India which had both immediate and distant, but surely terrible, consequences like the 1971 war with Pakistan over Bangladesh.
Thierry di Costanzo
Thierry Di Costanzo est maître de conférences en ‘Relations Internationales-et-anglais’ à l’Université de Strasbourg. Ses domaines de recherche portent sur l’Inde coloniale, l’histoire des pays anglophones anciennement colonisés, les relations entre nationalisme et journalisme, les autobiographies d’hommes politiques et le « self-writing ». Il a vécu au Bangladesh, en Algérie, en Grande-Bretagne et en Nouvelle-Zélande.
Guillaume Duoeur
Guillaume Ducœur is a lecturer in Historical Studies at the University of Strasbourg (France). He is a specialist of Sanskrit and History of Religions and has published on Vedism and Ancient Indian Buddhism. He is a member of the editing committee of the Revue de l’Histoire des Religions at the Collège de France.