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East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars

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Middle East Centre Booktalk
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In this joint seminar with the Asian Studies Centre, Dr Erin MB O’Halloran, University of Cambridge, presents her new book 'East of Empire' (2025 Stanford University Press). Chaired by Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony’s College).
For many years, scholars, politicians and activists have drawn comparisons between the partitions of India-Pakistan and Israel-Palestine, two seismic events which took place mere months apart. Yet they were far more than comparable: the two partitions were in fact deeply interconnected, and share origins in the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. In ‘East of Empire’, Erin O’Halloran reveals how the crisis in British Mandate Palestine created a crucial bridge between the Indian Khilafat movement of the early 1920s and Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s demand, from March 1940 onward, that Muslims of the subcontinent be given a state of their own.

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Series
Middle East Centre Booktalk
People
Erin O'Halloran
Faisal Devji
Keywords
empire
history
india
middle east
egypt
ottoman
british mandate
indian khilafat
WWI
wwii
islam
Department: Middle East Centre
Date Added: 08/05/2025
Duration: 00:50:04

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