India and China in the Colonial World

ISBN-13: 9781032652870 / Miękka / 2024 / 266 str.

Opis

This book combines thirteen essays by Indian and Chinese scholars who look at the multidimensional interaction between the two countries. The major areas of India-China relationships covered include aspects of the situation during and after World War II, the importance of Shanghai in Sino-Indian trade, the presence of the Chinese community in In

Spis treści

1. Madhavi Thampi- Introduction

TRADE AND ECONOMIC INTERACTIONS 2. Asiya Siddiqi- Pathways of the Poppy: India’s Opium Trade in the Nineteenth Century 3. Chen Zhilong- Shanghai: A Window for Studying Sino-Indian Relations in the Era of Colonialism and Imperialism

CHINESE IN INDIA, INDIANS IN CHINA 4. Ramakrishna Chatterjee- The Chinese Community of Calcutta: Their Early Settlement and Migration 5. Madhavi Thampi- The Indian Community in China and Sino-Indian Relations

CULTURAL INTERACTION 6. Sisir Kumar Das- The Controversial Guest: Tagore in China 7. Huang Chih-lien- Turning Point of India-China Relations in the Twentieth Century: The Linkage Role of Tan Yun-shan

LINKS BETWEEN THE NATIONAL AND REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN INDIA AND CHINA

7. B.R. Deepak- The 1857 Rebellion and Indian Involvement in the Taiping Uprising in China

8. Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea- Gandhi and the Chinese Community in South Africa 9. Avinash Mohan Saklani- Nehru, Chiang Kai-shek, and the Second World War 10. Girish Chandra Maiti- Subhash Chandra Bose’s Perspective on China

EMERGENCE OF A NEW RELATIONSHIP 11. Ge Yikun and Li Wei- Links between Yunnan and India during the Second World War 12. Shalini Saksena- Indian Perceptions of the Emergence of the People’s Republic of China 13. Surjit Mansingh- Perceptions and India–China Relations at the End of the Colonial Era

O autorze

Madhavi Thampi teaches Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Studies of Delhi University.  She is the author of Indians in China, 1800-1949 (Delhi, 2005) and co-author of China and the Making of Bombay (Mumbai, 2009). She is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, and Associate Editor of China Report.