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 (In Press)

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The call for a ‘global’ and ‘post-western’ International Relations discipline is rightly gathering momentum, yet arguably this research agenda contains presumptions as to the absence of an historical tradition of IR thinking in places such as India. Turning attention to marginalised histories of Indian International Relations this commentary piece on the global IR debate offers an 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 historicised 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
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author
Divisions:	International Relations
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited:	28 Mar 2024 11:24
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2024 10:15
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122519

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