What Indian women leaders can tell us about the interrelation of anti-colonialism, international feminism and intellectual history

This episode of New Work in Intellectual History explores the interrelation between anti-colonialism, international feminism and intellectual history along Dr Rosalind Parr’s most recent book entitled Citizens of Everywhere: Indian Women, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, 1920-1952, published with Cambridge University Press in 2021. After giving a brief insight into her book, Dr Parr shares her perspective on how the Indian women leaders that she writes about engaged with nationalism, cosmopolitanism, anti-colonialism and feminism, and how their example can shed a new light on Intellectual History. 

Dr Rosalind Parr currently works as a lecturer in Modern History at the School of History at the University of St Andrews and will be taking up a new post as Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Wolverhampton as of February 2022. Her research focusses on Global and South Asian History in the nineteenth to twentieth century and she is particularly interested in aspects of gender history, international feminism and anti-colonialism.