Routledge South Asian Transnationalisms History Book

South Asian Transnationalisms explores cultural encounters in twentieth century South Asia by looking beyond standard categories of colonizer and colonized. This volume examines the political and cultural exchanges between South Asian artists and intellectuals and their counterparts in the United States, continental Europe, the Caribbean, and East Asia. Readers will examine how identity, agency, and language function across borders. The contributors look at the relationships between race and empire, nation and ethnicity, and diaspora and nationality. By using transnational syntaxes such as cinema and dance, the book provides a new way to understand how South Asian history connects to the wider world. This text is an essential resource for those studying world cinema, Asian history, and the complex movements of people and ideas in the twentieth century.