Ian Barrow is a professor of South Asian history at Middlebury College in Vermont. He has written three books, the latest being a history of the British East India Company. Ian is currently working on a new book about the history of the independence struggles in South Asia.
We discuss the meaning of India, power and resistance in colonial South Asia, the myth of Gandhi, causes of Indian independence, major issues in India between 1947 and today, and much more.
See here for a teaching worksheet for this episode at my website
https://www.davidsherrin.com/cwh
Additional books recommended by Ian Barrow:
The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan
Dispatches from a Precarious State: The Nine Lives of Pakistan by Declan Walsh
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