{"product_id":"the-united-states-of-india-9781439918906","title":"The United States of India","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe United States of India \u003c\/i\u003eshows how Indian and American writers in the United States played a key role in the development of anticolonial thought in the years during and immediately following the First World War. For Indians Lajpat Rai and Dhan Gopal Mukerji, and Americans Agnes Smedley, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Katherine Mayo, the social and historical landscape of America and India acted as a reflective surface. Manan Desai considers how their interactions provided a “transnational refraction”—a political optic and discursive strategy that offered ways to imagine how American history could shed light on an anticolonial Indian future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesai traces how various expatriate and immigrant Indiansformedpolitical movements that ralliedforAmerican support for the cause of Indian independence. These intellectuals also developednew forms of writingaboutsubjugation in the U.S. and India. Providing an examination ofrace, caste, nationhood, and empire, Desai astutely\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408319390039,"sku":"9781439918906","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439918906.jpg?v=1730502425","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-united-states-of-india-9781439918906","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}