Beyond Borders : Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945 To 1950.
This book rediscovers an intense internationalism-and charts its loss-in the Indonesian Revolution. Momentous far beyond Indonesia itself, and not just for elites, generals, or diplomats, the Indonesian anti-colonial struggle from 1945-49 also became a powerful symbol of hope at the most grass-roots...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2018
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| Series: | Asian History Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I. Seeing the Region; 1. Everybody's Revolution; Internationalism and nationalism; Forces for mobility; Sources for the voices of workers, lascars, and sepoys; Structure of the book; 2. Connections and Mobility; Colonial armies; Cargoes; Traders; Seamen; Australian perceptions; Indian perceptions; Who were the Indian seamen?; Working together: Indian and Chinese seamen's unions; Part II. An Asian War; 3. Dangerous Oceans: Merchant Seamen and War; The Silksworth dispute, 1937; The Dalfram and Pig-Iron Bob, 1938
- The Indian strikes of 1939The Atlantic Charter, 14 August 1941; Building networks; 4. Home and Away: Invaded or Under Arms; Home: Living in the Japanese-occupied Indies; Away: The Indian Army in Burma; 5. Sharing the Home Front: Wartime Australia as Transnational Space; War leads to rising awareness; The India-Australia Association forms; The famine; Indonesians in Australia
- then Australians in Indonesia; Part III. The Boycott of Dutch Shipping; 6. Boycotting Colonialism: Supporting Indonesian Independence in Australia; Visions of new worlds; Black-banning Dutch ships, 1945-47
- 7. Seeing the Boycott in the Australian PressIndonesian Independence in Australia; The available stereotypes in Australian media; The Boycott in Australia; 8. Indian Perspectives: The Boycott as Anticolonialism; The press inside India; Forging a union; Part IV. Fighting Two Empires; 9. 'Surabaya Burns': Assault on a Republican City; Surabaya, the Republican port city; The 49th Infantry arrives; The unacceptable British ultimatum; 10. Frenzied Fanatics: Seeing Battle and Boycott in Australia; Sources of news in the Australian press; Narrowing the focus
- Indians challenge this imagery: Filming the Boycott11. 'The Acid Test': Seeing Surabaya in India; Sources; Context; Local issues; Events of the Battle; Bombardment narrows the focus; 'Extremists'; Absent voices; Part V. Aftermath; 12. Breaking the Boycott; Labour unity splinters; Bad nullies; Bringing back the Asian Articles; 13. Trading for Freedom; Freedom and censorship: weighing the costs; Protecting Indian soldiers; 14. Transnational Visions; The tightening Dutch blockade; To trade or not to trade ... ; Trade after the Partition of India; Part VI. Reflections; 15. Remembering Heroes
- ConclusionsRemembering heroes; Implications; Visions and afterlives; Glossary; Spelling; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; List of Images; 2.1 'Good Pals' Gallipoli; 2.2 T.D. Kundan in Surabaya, c. 1935; 3.1 Komalam Craig in Sydney, 1939 (with unidentified man, possibly Hari Sahodar Singh); 4.1 P.R.S. Mani with the Maharaja of Cooch-Behar in Burma; Captain Mani (right, with journalist's notepad) interviewing the Maharajah of Cooch-Behar, another Indian who enlisted in the British-led Indian Army to fight in Burma
