Decolonization and the Struggle for National Liberation in India (1909¿1971)
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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…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
Thierry Di Costanzo is a lecturer in English Studies at the University of Strasbourg (France). He is a specialist of British India and the idea of Pakistan and has lived and worked in Algeria, France, the UK, New Zealand and Bangladesh. He was also a JNIAS Fellow at the history department of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. Guillaume Ducur 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.