An Asian Drama: The Asian Relations Conference, 1947

Thakur, Vineet

doi:10.1080/07075332.2018.1434809

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“…61 Important work by Davis, Thakur, and Vale on empire and international affairs think tanks, including the ICWA, has exposed the imperial origins of IR, the pre-history of the Bandung movement, and the entangled nature of third-world internationalisms. 62 But to these processes of institutionalization we can add an appreciation of how organizations such as the ICWA built upon deeper foundations of international thought in India, including critiques of colonial and imperial knowledge orders. As the first edition of the ICWA journal India Quarterly put it: 'it appears as though, politically, economically and socially, we are still groping our way to those ideas and institutions which will enable us to be ourselves.…”

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Lineages of Indian International Relations: The Indian Council on World Affairs, the League of Nations, and the Pedagogy of Internationalism

Bayly

2021

The International History Review

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Despite a vibrant literature on the intellectual lifeworlds of anti-colonial international thought, the development of the formal study of International Relations in postcolonial states is frequently described as derivative of European or American practices. In India a privileging of the moment of India's independence in 1947 has obscured pre-independence literature and sustained the notion that the origins of Indian 'IR' were atheoretical, utilitarian, or simply absent. This paper challenges this understanding by playing closer attention to deeper intellectual lineages of Indian international thought and their institutionalization through the League of Nations Societies in India and the Indian Council of World Affairs -India's first independent international affairs think tank. Drawing upon archival material and postcolonial theory the article shows how Indian intellectuals and activists knowingly navigated the epistemic terrain of international thought, frequently discussing the 'international' as a realm of instruction allowing India to escape the constraints that imperialism had foisted upon Indian intellectuals: a 'pedagogy of internationalism'. Rather than standing apart from the world, Indian international affairs thinking was part of a global shift towards the sytematization of knowledge, a process driven not just by states, but by international organizations and globally connected think tanks.

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Lineages of Indian International Relations: The Indian Council on World Affairs, the League of Nations, and the Pedagogy of Internationalism

Bayly

2021

The International History Review

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“…25Mazower, No Enchanted Palace , 171–89. See also Bhagavan, The Peacemakers , 70–81; Thakur, “An Asian Drama”; and Lloyd, “A Most Auspicious Beginning.”…”

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“…41Mrázek, Sjahrir , 349–50, Wolf Jr., The Indonesian Story , 136–7; and Wolf Jr.'s introduction to his translation of Sjahrir, Out of Exile , xiv–xv. For Nehru's efforts to foster regional solidarities in 1947, see Thakur, “An Asian Drama.”…”

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The Republic at the Table, with Decolonisation on the Agenda: The United Nations Security Council and the Question of Indonesian Representation, 1946–1947

Foray¹

2021

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This article examines a formative episode in the history of both the United Nations Security Council and Indonesian decolonisation. In August of 1947, Council members authorised an ad hoc delegation from the Republic of Indonesia to participate in its discussions concerning the ongoing Dutch–Indonesian conflict. Focusing on the series of developments that led to the Indonesians taking their seats at the table, this article reveals how Security Council procedures and practices could be used to facilitate the decolonisation process. The Council's involvement in the Dutch–Indonesian conflict—and, in particular, the decision to allow the Indonesians to present their case in this international arena—demonstrates that Europeans’ claims of “domestic jurisdiction” over their colonial territories remained subject to negotiation, and that non-European actors could successfully contest these claims in Council chambers.

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“… 111 On the uneven legacy of the Asian Relations Conference, see Mansergh 1947; Thakur 2019; and Stolte 2014.…”

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Trans-Himalayan science in mid-twentieth century China and India: Birbal Sahni, Hsü Jen, and a Pan-Asian paleobotany

Ghosh

2021

International Journal of Asian Studies

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This paper uses the decade-long collaboration between the Indian paleobotanist Birbal Sahni (1891–1949) and his Chinese doctoral student Hsü Jen (Xu Ren 徐仁, 1910–1992) to offer a connected history of mid-twentieth century scientific activity in China and India. Possibly the first Chinese scientist to earn a PhD from an Indian university (Lucknow, 1946), Hsü was certainly the first to be appointed to a faculty position in India. Sahni and Hsü's attempts to build Asian networks of scientific activity, characterized by the circulation of experts, scientific knowledge, and specimens, provide the grounds for considering a practice of Pan-Asianism. Such a formulation adds to existing work on the Pan-Asianist articulations of intellectual and political figures and urges for an expansion of how we understand scientific activity across China and India from the 1930s to the 1960s. In so doing, the paper makes two historiographical interventions. In the first instance, the collaboration presents an opportunity to move beyond the two dominant frames through which histories of science in China and India are studied: the nation state and Non-West/West binaries. Second, a focus on science widens the scope of China–India history, a field dominated by research on cultural, intellectual, and diplomatic topics.

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An Asian Drama: The Asian Relations Conference, 1947

Cited by 25 publications

References 14 publications

Lineages of Indian International Relations: The Indian Council on World Affairs, the League of Nations, and the Pedagogy of Internationalism

Lineages of Indian International Relations: The Indian Council on World Affairs, the League of Nations, and the Pedagogy of Internationalism

The Republic at the Table, with Decolonisation on the Agenda: The United Nations Security Council and the Question of Indonesian Representation, 1946–1947

Trans-Himalayan science in mid-twentieth century China and India: Birbal Sahni, Hsü Jen, and a Pan-Asian paleobotany

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