Abstract This paper presents new ways of thinking about both the spatial relationality of a political event, and a mobile perspective on interwar imperialism, anti-colonialism and Indian nationalism. Between 1930 and 1932 over one hundred delegates from India visited London to participate in the three sessions of the Round Table Conference, which determined India’s constitutional future within the British Empire. This conference informally began, and continued, at sea, during the two to three week journey between India and Britain. The steamships that the delegates travelled in are portrayed here as places of work, drawing especially on the diaries of the Hindu nationalist Dr B.S. Moonje, but also of social observation and tension, illustrated through the coverage of M.K. Gandhi’s spiritual journey. Through these seaborne political lives the conference itself was anticipated and digested across the watery expanses between Europe and India.

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海上政治生活：1930 年至 1932 年在伦敦举行的印度圆桌会议之间的工作和社交活动

摘要 本文提出了思考政治事件空间关系的新方法，以及对两次世界大战期间帝国主义、反殖民主义和印度民族主义的移动视角。1930 年至 1932 年间，来自印度的一百多名代表访问伦敦，参加了三届圆桌会议，该会议决定了印度在大英帝国内的宪法未来。这次会议在印度和英国之间两到三周的旅程中非正式地开始并在海上继续进行。代表们乘坐的轮船在这里被描绘成工作场所，特别借鉴了印度民族主义者 BS Moonje 博士的日记，但也描绘了社会观察和紧张局势，通过 MK 甘地的精神之旅的报道来说明。