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Citizens of Everywhere

Citizens of Everywhere

Citizens of Everywhere

Indian Women, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, 1920–1952
Rosalind Parr, University of St Andrews, UK
April 2022
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    Citizens of Everywhere traces the international careers of a cohort of extraordinary Indian women leaders during the final decades of colonial rule. Working in pursuit of the dual goals of Indian independence and women's rights, the women featured in this book established productive transnational connections to gain influence on the world stage, all against the backdrop of momentous events in India and beyond. In doing so, they contributed a distinct set of ideas to global conversations about rights and citizenship. By bringing this transnational activism to light, the author offers new perspectives on Indian nationalism. More broadly the book establishes Indian women as actors in the global histories of women's rights and international movements during the era of decolonisation.

    • Uses transnational methodology to read transnational history, utilising archive sources found in multiple geographic locations
    • Emphasises Indian women's agency in an international context, nuancing the common depiction of Indian women simply as objects of western feminism
    • Constructs a polycentric history of women's activism

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    April 2022
    Hardback
    9781108838146
    212 pages
    237 × 162 × 18 mm
    0.41kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Global Public Sphere
    • 1. The Cosmopolitan-Nationalism of Sarojini Naidu
    • 2. Suffrage
    • Solidarity
    • 3. Becoming Global Citizens
    • 4. Breaking America
    • 5. A Changing World Order?
    • 6. Defining Human Rights
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix 1: Dramatis Personae
    • Appendix 2: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    • Bibliography
    • Index.
      Author
    • Rosalind Parr , University of St Andrews, UK

      Rosalind Parr is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, UK, where she teaches global and South Asian history.