1st Edition
The Past as Presence How the Everyday is Remaking International Relations in South Asia
Introduction: The Past as Presence: How the Everyday is Remaking International Relations in South Asia
Jayashree Vivekanandan
1. Victorious outliers: India’s border regions and the contested memory politics of the Burma campaign
Nimmi Kurian and Jayashree Vivekanandan
2. Remembering, forgetting and memorialising: 1947, 1971 and the state of memory studies in South Asia
Isha Dubey
3. Postage stamps as sites of public history in South Asia: an intervention
Manu Sharma
4. Indian foreign policy as public history: globalist, pragmatist and Hindutva imaginations
Shibashis Chatterjee and Udayan Das
5. Representing partition in the UK: an archive, an exhibition and a classroom
K. M. Greenbank
Biography
Jayashree Vivekanandan is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, South Asian University, New Delhi, India. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2017. She is the author of Interrogating International Relations: India’s Strategic Practice and the Return of History, Routledge, New Delhi, and London, 2011. Her articles have appeared in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, India Review, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Studies in Indian Politics, among others.
