The empire cites back: the occlusion of non-western histories of IR and the case of India

Bayly, Martin J. (2024) The empire cites back: the occlusion of non-western histories of IR and the case of India. International Studies. ISSN 0020-8817

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Abstract

The call for a ‘global’ and ‘post-Western’ international relations (IR) discipline is rightly gathering momentum, yet arguably this research agenda contains presumptions as to the absence of a historical tradition of IR thinking in places such as India. Turning attention to marginalized histories of Indian IR, this commentary on the global IR debate offers a historical corrective to these presumptions and calls for greater attention to extra-European disciplinary histories. In so doing, important patterns of co-constitution reveal the connected histories of disciplinary development that challenge the analytical categories that often characterize the global IR and post-Western IR literature. A more historicized global IR debate offers a fruitful research agenda that explores the multiple connected beginnings of IR as a global discipline responsive to a variety of intellectual lineages, encompassing a variety of political purposes and revealing entanglements of imperial and anti-imperial knowledge.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ISQ
Additional Information:	© 2024 Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Divisions:	International Relations
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited:	28 Mar 2024 11:24
Last Modified:	14 Aug 2024 23:17
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122519

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