Shared infrastructures, informational asymmetries: Persians and Indians in Japan,<i>c</i>.1890–1930

Green, Nile

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“…111 Around 1900, industrial communications had enabled Japan to become an important centre for exchange among Middle Eastern and South Asian intellectuals. 112 In the 1930s, Japanese elites dreamed that an autarchic communications network could provide the nervous system to feed the body of its autonomous economic sphere in East Asia, investing immense effort and finances to attempt to implement their plans. 113 The Soviet Union, meanwhile, created communications networks mirroring their economic system of central planning.…”

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‘The telegraph and the bank’: on the interdependence of global communications and capitalism, 1866–1914

Müller¹,

Tworek

2015

Journal of Global History

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This article uses the example of submarine telegraphy to trace the interdependence between global communications and modern capitalism. It uncovers how cable entrepreneurs created the global telegraph network based upon particular understandings of cross-border trade, while economists such as John Maynard Keynes and John Hobson saw global communications as the foundation for capitalist exchange. Global telegraphic networks were constructed to support extant capitalist systems until the 1890s, when states and corporations began to lay telegraph cables to open up new markets, particularly in Asia and Latin America, as well as for strategic and military reasons. The article examines how the interaction between telegraphy and capitalism created particular geographical spaces and social orders despite opposition from myriad Western and non-Western groups. It argues that scholars need to account for the role of infrastructure in creating asymmetrical information and access to trade that have continued to the present day.

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Section: Fighting For Alternative Concepts Of Global Commerce and Commentioning

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‘The telegraph and the bank’: on the interdependence of global communications and capitalism, 1866–1914

Müller¹,

Tworek

2015

Journal of Global History

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Forgotten Futures: Indian Muslims in the Trans-Islamic Turn to Japan

Green¹

2013

J of Asian Stud

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This essay casts light on the alternative but unrealized futures imagined through the Indian Muslim encounter with Japan in the inter-war period. Echoing other attempts to destabilize the empire-to-nation teleology of Indo-Pakistani independence, the essay uncovers a set of aspirations, actors, and spaces of comparison by which Indian Muslims sought an independent future for Muslim-ruled princely states such as Hyderabad. Through comparison with similar patterns in other Asian princely states, a case study of Urdu writings on Japan shows how East Asia became a place to imagine for Hyderabad a future that never came to fruition. By locating India in a trans-Islamic pattern of engaging Japan, the essay shows how, between the Russo-Japanese War and the Second World War, Japan provided newly globalized intellectuals with a template for empowering Muslim-ruled polities that either never came into existence or were subsumed by Asia's postcolonial nations.

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‘We Must Send a Gift Worthy of India and the Congress!’ War and political humanitarianism in late colonial South Asia

Framke

2017

Mod. Asian Stud.

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The interwar period has recently been described as a highly internationalist one in South Asia, as a series of distinct internationalisms—communist, anarchist, social scientific, socialist, literary, and aesthetic1—took shape. At the same time, it has been argued that the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 drew to a close various opportunities for international association (at least, temporarily). Taking into account both these contradistinctive developments, this article deals with another—and thus far largely overlooked—South Asian internationalism in the form of wartime Indian humanitarianism. In 1938, the Indian National Congress helped organize an Indian medical mission to China to bring relief to Chinese victims of the Second Sino-Japanese War. By focusing on this initiative, this article traces the ideas, the practices, and the motives of Indian political humanitarianism. It argues that such initiatives, as they became part of much wider global networks of humanitarianism in the late 1930s and early 1940s, created new openings for Indian nationalists to establish international alliances. This article also examines the way in which political humanitarianism enabled these same nationalists to perform as independent leaders on an international stage, and argues that humanitarianism served as a tool of anti-colonial emancipation.

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Shared infrastructures, informational asymmetries: Persians and Indians in Japan,c.1890–1930

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

‘The telegraph and the bank’: on the interdependence of global communications and capitalism, 1866–1914

‘The telegraph and the bank’: on the interdependence of global communications and capitalism, 1866–1914

Forgotten Futures: Indian Muslims in the Trans-Islamic Turn to Japan

‘We Must Send a Gift Worthy of India and the Congress!’ War and political humanitarianism in late colonial South Asia

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