G Balachandran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Balachandran |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Balachandran |
| SIGNATURE | BALACHANDRAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
South Asian Seafarers and Their Worlds: C. 1870-1930s
Indefinite transits: Mobility and confinement in the age of steam
The increased regulation of mobility that accompanied its late nineteenth-century expansion and acceleration is widely recognized. Regulatory practices reached out to distant shores and on board ships, heightening uncertainties and reshaping meanings of voyage and transit, especially for non-white passengers and crews. Travel and mobility are common themes in historical and other literatures. But less is known about experiences of uncertain or th…
Transnational Histories and Subcontinental Pasts: A Review Essay
Nico Slate, Coloured Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2012, pp. 321. Vivek Bald, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, pp. 294. Seema Sohi, Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance and Anticolonialism in North America, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 271
Atlantic paradigms and aberrant histories
Theoretical paradigms based on Atlantic experiences pose a challenge for attempts to imagine anew histories of commerce and culture in the colonial and Indian Ocean world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Foregrounding place origins of purportedly universal doctrines, this paper attempts provisionally and suggestively to explore this challenge by locating and dislocating in place some conventional frameworks for interpreting patterns of …
Claiming histories beyond nations: Situating global history
History is conventionally imagined and narrated in the context of the nation, relating its stories and shaped by its imaginaries. To the extent the latter are selectively re-encoded into seemingly wider scales or spaces of historical narration, projects such as global history may be said to be oxymorons. Historians in the post-colonial world have also long been aware of the nation’s shadow even in purportedly transnational projects emanating from…
History 2 or 2 B? Capital Narratives for Asia and Asian Narratives for Capital: A Preliminary Exploration
Naturalizing a global ‘world of capitalist totality’ serves as a modality for normalizing global processes of capital accumulation. However ‘global’ remains a project evinced in specific forms of cultural action and practices. This preliminary article juxtaposes two vastly separated spheres of global economy and society that are rarely considered together. The haute sphere of a crisis ridden global financial system increasingly sees its salvation…
Power and markets in global finance: The gold standard, 1890–1926
This paper explores the intimate connection between imperialism and a liberal global economy in the late nineteenth century and the inter-war period by distinguishing and disentangling the imperial and political dimensions of the pre-World War I gold standard, and interwar efforts to restore it. By doing so it attempts partial!y to redress the relative neglect of power in historical accounts of the international financial arrangements, and re-bal…
South Asian Seafarers and Their Worlds: C. 1870–1930s
Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges
Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world.The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that info…
Developing the state of a nation in a post-colonial world: A review essay
Globalizing India: Perspectives from Below
Conflicts in the international maritime labour market: British and Indian seamen, employers, and the state, 1890-1939
Britain's liquidity crisis and India, 1919-1920
This article argues that the formulation of the 1920 stabilization package for India can be understood only against the background of the threat that its appetites for gold posed to Britain's already delicate postwar liquidity position.This threat determined the deflationary character of the package. The article not only takes issue with existing interpretations of the particular stabilization episode, but more generally suggests that India's sig…
The sterling crisis and the managed float regime in India, 1921-1924
The sterling crisis and the managed float regime in India, 1921India, -1924
Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges
Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world.The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that info…
Conflicts in the international maritime labour market: British and Indian seamen, employers, and the state, 1890-1939
Indefinite transits: Mobility and confinement in the age of steam
The increased regulation of mobility that accompanied its late nineteenth-century expansion and acceleration is widely recognized. Regulatory practices reached out to distant shores and on board ships, heightening uncertainties and reshaping meanings of voyage and transit, especially for non-white passengers and crews. Travel and mobility are common themes in historical and other literatures. But less is known about experiences of uncertain or th…
Britain's liquidity crisis and India, 1919-1920
This article argues that the formulation of the 1920 stabilization package for India can be understood only against the background of the threat that its appetites for gold posed to Britain's already delicate postwar liquidity position.This threat determined the deflationary character of the package. The article not only takes issue with existing interpretations of the particular stabilization episode, but more generally suggests that India's sig…
Power and markets in global finance: The gold standard, 1890–1926
This paper explores the intimate connection between imperialism and a liberal global economy in the late nineteenth century and the inter-war period by distinguishing and disentangling the imperial and political dimensions of the pre-World War I gold standard, and interwar efforts to restore it. By doing so it attempts partial!y to redress the relative neglect of power in historical accounts of the international financial arrangements, and re-bal…
Atlantic paradigms and aberrant histories
Theoretical paradigms based on Atlantic experiences pose a challenge for attempts to imagine anew histories of commerce and culture in the colonial and Indian Ocean world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Foregrounding place origins of purportedly universal doctrines, this paper attempts provisionally and suggestively to explore this challenge by locating and dislocating in place some conventional frameworks for interpreting patterns of …
Claiming histories beyond nations: Situating global history
History is conventionally imagined and narrated in the context of the nation, relating its stories and shaped by its imaginaries. To the extent the latter are selectively re-encoded into seemingly wider scales or spaces of historical narration, projects such as global history may be said to be oxymorons. Historians in the post-colonial world have also long been aware of the nation’s shadow even in purportedly transnational projects emanating from…
The sterling crisis and the managed float regime in India, 1921-1924
The sterling crisis and the managed float regime in India, 1921India, -1924
The sterling crisis and the managed float regime in India, 1921-1924
The sterling crisis and the managed float regime in India, 1921India, -1924
Britain's liquidity crisis and India, 1919-1920
This article argues that the formulation of the 1920 stabilization package for India can be understood only against the background of the threat that its appetites for gold posed to Britain's already delicate postwar liquidity position.This threat determined the deflationary character of the package. The article not only takes issue with existing interpretations of the particular stabilization episode, but more generally suggests that India's sig…
Conflicts in the international maritime labour market: British and Indian seamen, employers, and the state, 1890-1939
Globalizing India: Perspectives from Below
South Asian Seafarers and Their Worlds: C. 1870–1930s
Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges
Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world.The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that info…
Developing the state of a nation in a post-colonial world: A review essay
Power and markets in global finance: The gold standard, 1890–1926
This paper explores the intimate connection between imperialism and a liberal global economy in the late nineteenth century and the inter-war period by distinguishing and disentangling the imperial and political dimensions of the pre-World War I gold standard, and interwar efforts to restore it. By doing so it attempts partial!y to redress the relative neglect of power in historical accounts of the international financial arrangements, and re-bal…
History 2 or 2 B? Capital Narratives for Asia and Asian Narratives for Capital: A Preliminary Exploration
Naturalizing a global ‘world of capitalist totality’ serves as a modality for normalizing global processes of capital accumulation. However ‘global’ remains a project evinced in specific forms of cultural action and practices. This preliminary article juxtaposes two vastly separated spheres of global economy and society that are rarely considered together. The haute sphere of a crisis ridden global financial system increasingly sees its salvation…
Claiming histories beyond nations: Situating global history
History is conventionally imagined and narrated in the context of the nation, relating its stories and shaped by its imaginaries. To the extent the latter are selectively re-encoded into seemingly wider scales or spaces of historical narration, projects such as global history may be said to be oxymorons. Historians in the post-colonial world have also long been aware of the nation’s shadow even in purportedly transnational projects emanating from…
Atlantic paradigms and aberrant histories
Theoretical paradigms based on Atlantic experiences pose a challenge for attempts to imagine anew histories of commerce and culture in the colonial and Indian Ocean world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Foregrounding place origins of purportedly universal doctrines, this paper attempts provisionally and suggestively to explore this challenge by locating and dislocating in place some conventional frameworks for interpreting patterns of …
Transnational Histories and Subcontinental Pasts: A Review Essay
Nico Slate, Coloured Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2012, pp. 321. Vivek Bald, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, pp. 294. Seema Sohi, Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance and Anticolonialism in North America, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 271
Indefinite transits: Mobility and confinement in the age of steam
The increased regulation of mobility that accompanied its late nineteenth-century expansion and acceleration is widely recognized. Regulatory practices reached out to distant shores and on board ships, heightening uncertainties and reshaping meanings of voyage and transit, especially for non-white passengers and crews. Travel and mobility are common themes in historical and other literatures. But less is known about experiences of uncertain or th…
South Asian Seafarers and Their Worlds: C. 1870-1930s
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