Ireland, India and Empire

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 Using previously unpublished sources from the Indian Political Intelligence collection; it chronicles the rise and fall of movements such as the Indian-Irish Independence League and the League Against Imperialism whose histories have, until now, remained deeply hidden in the archives. The maturation of the Indo-Irish nexus documented in this book eventually culminated with the establishment of diplomatic ties between both independent states in the 1960s, yet the British government initially interpreted these transnational links as a potential threat to the Empire and monitored their development through its security services. O Malley highlights opaque aspects of the careers of popular figures from both Irish and Indian history including Subhas Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, Eamon de Valera and Maud Gonne McBride at points when their paths crossed and also looks at how many one-time agitators went on to become international statesmen. This book encompasses aspects of Irish, Indian, British, Imperial and intelligence history and will be of interest to students, teachers and general history enthusiasts alike.

ISBN 0719077516   Pages 216 ISBN13 9780719077517 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 499 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Series title Studies in Imperialism Publication date 01 Mar 2008   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress DA963   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 941.70822   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

		List of illustrations
		Abbreviations
		Introduction		1
1		The communist menace		13
2		V. J. Patel and the Indian-Irish Independence League		53
3		Subhas Chandra Bose and Ireland		90
4		The Second World War and the 'vanishing Empire'		127
5		A Commonwealth republic		156
		Conclusion		179
		Biographical notes		183
		Appendices		191
		Bibliography		198
		Index		205

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