The radicalization of the Indian and Irish nationalist movements, 1914-1922 : a comparison

Abstract

I initially conceived of this research when I was an honours student at the University of Tasmania. It was then that my supervisors, Dr. Asim Roy and Dr. Richard Davis, painstakingly showed me that the interaction of the Indian and Irish nationalist movements during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a much neglected field of research. Dr. Davis himself has already done some substantial work in this field. Other historians such as Dr. Mary Cumpston, Dr. J.V. Crangle, and Dr. Howard Brasted have also contributed significant studies to this fertile area of academic endeavour. However, most of the work on this rare domain of comparative studies is concentrated in the nineteenth century. Dr. Cumpston, for instance, discusses the nature of Irish nationalist advocacy of Indian interests during 1851-1906. Dr. Brasted, in two welldocumented articles which establish the Irish Home Rule influence on the development of Indian national consciousness, also confines himself to the 1870s and 1880s. Dr. Crangle, who analyses Irish nationalist diatribes against the imperial administration of India, too, focuses his attention on the period 1880-1884. Show more