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Introduction: Indology and Aryanism: Knowledge of India in Nazi Germany—An Invitation for New Research
The introduction to our special issue offers a brief survey of the historical literature on knowledge about India in Nazi Germany and distinguishes...
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Knowledge of India as an Instrument of Nazi Politics: Ludwig Alsdorf, German Indology and Indian Anti-Colonialism
Ludwig Alsdorf (1904–1978) is primarily remembered as a scholar of ancient and medieval India. This paper examines a little known aspect of Alsdorf’s...
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Independent India and the World
Panikkar’s growing interest in geopolitics and India’s international position, together with the crucial experience of Partition, modified his view...
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Singapore-India Relations: An Enduring Convergence of Interests
Singapore-India relations, in the post-Cold War era, demand special discussion. The first part of this chapter outlines Singapore’s relations with...
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Politics and Diplomacy in Princely India
Panikkar, as Secretary to the Chamber of Princes and later as Foreign Minister of the Patiala State, was a protagonist in the talks on the proposed...
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India’s Act East Policy and Neighbouring Powers: India-Myanmar Relations
The relations between India and Myanmar are strategically important as there is a long borderline between the two countries on both land and maritime...
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Adivasi’s of India as Indigenous People in Postcolonial World
Today, it is a well-accepted fact that the Indigenous people have been exploited and were subdued for many centuries across the globe. They have...
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Postmemory and the Partition of India Learning to Remember
This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how...
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Pensioning Pondichéry’s Enfants and Orphelins: Social Welfare and the French East India Company in Eighteenth-Century French India
Orphaned children, widows, and other impoverished residents were a concern for administrative officials both in Paris and in Pondichéry—France’s...
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India and South East Asian Relations: The Past Profile
Historically, India and South East Asia have had close connections with each other from ancient times to the era of colonial rule. The chapter talks...
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Experiencing Emerging India
At the end of March in 2014, I went to Vienna to participate in a small-scale conference, “Interfaith Dialogue: Global Ethnics in Decision-making.” A...
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Islam in India: Acceleration Under the Ghaznavids (Tenth to Eleventh Centuries)
Islam succeeded in kee** its dynamism after the death of Prophet Muhammad, and reached India, in the East, and Spain, in the West, within a...
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Experiences of Inequality from India, a Sociobiographical View
Krishna Swamy Dara is a political scientist based at Jamia Millia Islamia University, where he teaches political theory and Indian political thought....
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India and Indonesia in the Indo-Pacific: Time for a Greater Push
The India-Indonesia relations had kicked off on a big scale with the two leading the way for the convening of the 1955 Banding Conference, also known...
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Withstanding Globalization in Northern India: Farmers Make Sugar for Local Consumption
According to standard global histories of sugar, the plantation model invades the world, and slavery becomes the norm. The microhistory of sugarcane...
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Pursuing the Idea of India
After an early upbringing in traditional Kerala, as a student in Oxford, young Panikkar had a defining experience by coming in touch with both...
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Networked Port-Cites and Polities in India
This chapter is about how ports and coastal zones functioned in west and east coasts of India. It compares networked Gujarat, Konkan/Kanara and...
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Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India
This chapter examines, on the basis of under-utilized archival materials, the uses of different religions in Nazi cultural politics aimed at India...
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Strengthening Maritime Connectivity Across the Bay of Bengal: India and Her Eastern and Southeastern Neighbours
The chapter focuses on strengthening maritime connectivity between India and her Southeastern Asian neighbours in the Bay of Bengal region against...