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Lineages of Indian International Relations: The Indian Council on World Affairs, the League of Nations, and the Pedagogy of Internationalism
The International History Review ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 , DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2021.1900891
Martin J. Bayly 1
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Abstract

Despite a vibrant literature on the intellectual lifeworlds of anti-colonial international thought, the development of the formal study of International Relations in postcolonial states is frequently described as derivative of European or American practices. In India a privileging of the moment of India’s independence in 1947 has obscured pre-independence literature and sustained the notion that the origins of Indian ‘IR’ were atheoretical, utilitarian, or simply absent. This paper challenges this understanding by playing closer attention to deeper intellectual lineages of Indian international thought and their institutionalization through the League of Nations Societies in India and the Indian Council of World Affairs – India’s first independent international affairs think tank. Drawing upon archival material and postcolonial theory the article shows how Indian intellectuals and activists knowingly navigated the epistemic terrain of international thought, frequently discussing the ‘international’ as a realm of instruction allowing India to escape the constraints that imperialism had foisted upon Indian intellectuals: a ‘pedagogy of internationalism’. Rather than standing apart from the world, Indian international affairs thinking was part of a global shift towards the sytematization of knowledge, a process driven not just by states, but by international organizations and globally connected think tanks.



中文翻译:

印度国际关系的沿袭:印度世界事务委员会、国际联盟和国际主义教育学

摘要

尽管关于反殖民国际思想的知识生活世界的文献充满活力,但后殖民国家国际关系的正式研究的发展经常被描述为欧洲或美国实践的衍生。在印度,对 1947 年印度独立时刻的特权掩盖了独立前的文献,并维持了这样一种观念,即印度“国际关系”的起源是非理论的、功利的或根本不存在的。本文通过印度国际社会联盟和印度世界事务委员会(印度第一个独立的国际事务智库)更密切地关注印度国际思想的更深层次的知识谱系及其制度化,从而挑战了这种理解。该文章利用档案材料和后殖民理论,展示了印度知识分子和活动家如何有意识地驾驭国际思想的认知领域,经常讨论“国际”作为一种指导领域,使印度能够摆脱帝国主义强加给印度知识分子的限制: “国际主义教育学”。印度的国际事务思维不是与世界隔绝,而是全球向知识系统化转变的一部分,这一过程不仅由国家推动,而且由国际组织和全球联系的智库推动。经常讨论“国际”作为一种教育领域,使印度能够摆脱帝国主义强加给印度知识分子的约束:一种“国际主义教育学”。印度的国际事务思维不是与世界隔绝,而是全球向知识系统化转变的一部分,这一过程不仅由国家推动,而且由国际组织和全球联系的智库推动。经常讨论“国际”作为一种教育领域,使印度能够摆脱帝国主义强加给印度知识分子的约束:一种“国际主义教育学”。印度的国际事务思维不是与世界隔绝,而是全球向知识系统化转变的一部分,这一过程不仅由国家推动,而且由国际组织和全球联系的智库推动。

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