East of Empire

In the years following World War I, as connections between the Middle East and South Asia began to proliferate, Egypt and India lay squarely at the heart of these increasingly complex and multilateral relations. East of Empire traces a series of intersecting narratives between 1919 and the mid-1940s as anti-colonial nationalism gained momentum across the East, and political crises mounted within Europe. Historian Erin M.B. O'Halloran documents the friendships, rivalries, cultural exchanges and shifting political alliances which came to animate the interwar project of "Easternism": a humanist, cosmopolitan vision of the world whose centre of gravity lay beyond Europe, in the great city of Cairo.