Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64
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 Using previously unpublished sources from the Indian Political Intelligence collection, it chronicles the rise and fall of movements such as the India-Irish Independence League and the League Against Imperialism, whose histories have, until now, remained...
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Includes primary source material never before published from the Indian Political Intelligence collection housed in the British Library.
List of illustrationsAbbreviationsIntroduction 11 The communist menace 132 V. J. Patel and the Indian-Irish Independence League 533 Subhas Chandra Bose and Ireland 904 The Second World War and the 'vanishing Empire' 1275 A Commonwealth republic 156Conclusion 179Biographical notes 183Appendices 191Bibliography 198Index 205
\ From the Publisher\ "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\ \
