Asianism and the Fall of Empire

India's Road to Freedom
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-42582-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Reihe: California World History Library

Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire identifies the rise of Asianism in the early twentieth century as the origin and primary driving force of resistance movements that brought down the British Empire. Mithi Mukherjee ties together into a single sweeping narrative two contrasting, conflicting forms of anticolonialism: the emergence of nonviolent resistance movement under Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa and the militant movement culminating in the war on British India by the Indian National Army under Bose in alliance with the Japanese army. Asia emerges in this breakthrough retelling not as an inert geographical category, but instead as a singular agent of change in modern world history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukherjee, Mithi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Asianism and Civilizational Sovereignty in Post-1857 India

2. Asia Rears Its Head: The Rise of Japan and the Anglo-American Response

3. The Russo-Japanese War and the Rise of Militant Geopolitical Asianism

4. Racism and the Asian Immigrant: Gandhi in South Africa
5. The Amritsar Massacre and Asianism in the Interwar Years
6. Empire on the Edge: Gandhi, Bose, and the Second World War
7. The Final Assault: The Indo-Japanese Invasion and the Fall of Empire
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mithi Mukherjee is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History, 1774–1950.