India in the World

Rajeshwari Dutt is Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. Her research examines race in Latin American and British Imperial history. Her latest book is Empire on Edge: The British Struggle for Order in Belize during Yucatán’s Caste War, 1847–1901 (2020). Nico Slate is Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. His research examines struggles against racism and imperialism in the United States and India. His most recent book is Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race (2023).

Introduction Part 1. Movement of Peoples, Things and Ideas 1. Servile Labor in India in a Global Context, 1500-1900 2. Woven, Mined, Milled, and Packed: The Global Destinies of Indian Commodities, 1500-2023 3. The News of 1857: The Indian Uprising and Belize during Yucatán’s Caste War Part 2. State Repression and Transnational Resistance 4. Would You Deprive Him of Toddy?’: Singapore’s English-language Press, and the Racialization of Alcohol Consumption by Indians, 1900-1960 5. Conspiracy in Meerut: A Global History of Colonial India, 1929-1933 6. INonviolence and Nonalignment: Indian Foreign Policy and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1936-1964 Part 3. Decolonization and Afro-Asian Solidarities 7. Mohandas the Man, Mahatma the Legend: Gandhian Legacies Outside the Subcontinent 8. To the Students: Education for Nonviolence in the World 9. A Bombay Periodical, Indian Non-Alignment & Afro-Asian Internationalism