1st Edition

India and China in the Colonial World

Edited By Madhavi Thampi Copyright 2017
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

India and China in the Colonial World brings together thirteen essays by eminent Indian and Chinese scholars as well as young researchers who look at the multidimensional interaction between the two countries. This interaction was of many kinds and took place at various levels. This volume casts new light on some of the problems that have confronted the relations between India and China as new... Read more


  1. Madhavi Thampi- Introduction


TRADE AND ECONOMIC INTERACTIONS 2. Asiya Siddiqi- Pathways of the Poppy: Indias 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 Boses 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 Peoples Republic of China 13. Surjit Mansingh- Perceptions and India–China Relations at the End of the Colonial Era

Biography

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.