Reimagining Asia: Indian and Australian women crossing borders

Goodall, H; Ghosh, D

Reimagining Asia: Indian and Australian women crossing borders

Goodall, H

Ghosh, D

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Citation:: Modern Asian Studies, 2019, 53 (4), pp. 1183 - 1221
Issue Date:: 2019-07-01

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dc.contributor.author	Goodall, H https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8643-5624	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Ghosh, D https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9096-5954	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-07-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Modern Asian Studies, 2019, 53 (4), pp. 1183 - 1221	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0026-749X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132610
dc.description.abstract	© Cambridge University Press 2018. The decades from the 1940s to the 1960s were ones of increasing contacts between women of India and Australia. These were not built on a shared British colonial history, but on commitments to visions circulating globally of equality between races, sexes, and classes. Kapila Khandvala from Bombay and Lucy Woodcock from Sydney were two women who met during such campaigns. Interacting roughly on an equal footing, they were aware of each other's activism in the Second World War and the emerging Cold War. Khandvala and Woodcock both made major contributions to the women's movements of their countries, yet have been largely forgotten in recent histories, as have links between their countries. We analyse their interactions, views, and practices on issues to which they devoted their lives: women's rights, progressive education, and peace. Their beliefs and practices on each were shaped by their respective local contexts, although they shared ideologies that were circulating internationally. These kept them in contact over many years, during which Kapilabuilt networks that brought Australians into the sphere of Indian women's awareness, while Lucy, in addition to her continuing contacts with Kapila, travelled to China and consolidated links between Australian and Chinese women in Sydney. Their activist world was centred not in Western Europe, but in a new Asia that linked Australia and India. Our comparative study of the work and interactions of these two activist women offers strategies for working on global histories, where collaborative research and analysis is conducted in both colonizing and colonized countries.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Modern Asian Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1017/S0026749X17000920	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Cultural Studies	en_US
dc.title	Reimagining Asia: Indian and Australian women crossing borders	en_US
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© Cambridge University Press 2018. The decades from the 1940s to the 1960s were ones of increasing contacts between women of India and Australia. These were not built on a shared British colonial history, but on commitments to visions circulating globally of equality between races, sexes, and classes. Kapila Khandvala from Bombay and Lucy Woodcock from Sydney were two women who met during such campaigns. Interacting roughly on an equal footing, they were aware of each other's activism in the Second World War and the emerging Cold War. Khandvala and Woodcock both made major contributions to the women's movements of their countries, yet have been largely forgotten in recent histories, as have links between their countries. We analyse their interactions, views, and practices on issues to which they devoted their lives: women's rights, progressive education, and peace. Their beliefs and practices on each were shaped by their respective local contexts, although they shared ideologies that were circulating internationally. These kept them in contact over many years, during which Kapilabuilt networks that brought Australians into the sphere of Indian women's awareness, while Lucy, in addition to her continuing contacts with Kapila, travelled to China and consolidated links between Australian and Chinese women in Sydney. Their activist world was centred not in Western Europe, but in a new Asia that linked Australia and India. Our comparative study of the work and interactions of these two activist women offers strategies for working on global histories, where collaborative research and analysis is conducted in both colonizing and colonized countries.

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