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About Shatrunjay Mall
I am a transnational historian of Asia with interests in both modern Japan and modern South Asia. My dissertation is an exploration of political, intellectual and cultural connections between Indian anti-colonial nationalism and the Japanese Empire in the first half of the twentieth century. I am interested in individuals, ideas and movements that spanned the world, and my research attempts to demonstrate connections between places and regions usually considered disconnected.Shatrunjay Mall is a PhD candidate at the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He works on transnational Asian history, and his dissertation explores intellectual, political, and cultural intersections and affinities that emerged between Indian anti-colonialism and imperial Japan in the twentieth century.
NBN Episodes hosted by Shatrunjay:
July 8, 2023
How Asia Found Herself
The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spre…
April 19, 2023
Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-45
Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, British India had been taken as the main logistic base for China's war against the Japanese. Chinese soldiers, …
March 2, 2023
Radio for the Millions
From news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for m…
February 22, 2023
The EU Migrant Generation in Asia
Drawing on an extensive study with young individuals who migrated to Singapore and Tokyo in the 2010s, The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class…
November 29, 2022
The Politics of Time in China and Japan
Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future (Routledge, 2022…
November 24, 2022
Outcasts of Empire
Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874-1945 (University of California Press, 2018) by Paul D. Barclay unveils the causes a…
September 23, 2022
The Japanese Buddhist World Map
From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. …
July 21, 2022
Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History (Bloomsbury, 2018) by Ethan Mark draws upon written and oral Japanese, Ind…
July 11, 2022
Ploughshares and Swords
Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022) by Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wis…
June 28, 2022
From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Shanghai became a cosmopolitan hub with communities of Japanese, British, Russians, Jews, and ot…
June 21, 2022
The 24th Mile
The story of India and Indians in World War II has been overshadowed by other historical events of the 1940s, a busy decade that included such histori…
April 26, 2022
Post-Fascist Japan
After Japan’s devastating defeat in World War II, by late 1945, local Japanese turned their energies towards creating new behaviors and institutions t…
April 12, 2022
Rebels Against the Raj
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom (Knopf, 2022) by Ramachandra Guha tells the extraordinary but little-known story of seven…
March 8, 2022
Policing ‘Bengali Terrorism’ in India and the World
Policing ‘Bengali Terrorism’ in India and the World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) by Michael Silvestri examines the development of imperial intelligence …
February 25, 2022
Liminality of the Japanese Empire
Okinawa, one of the smallest prefectures of Japan, has drawn much international attention because of the long-standing presence of US bases and the pe…
February 2, 2022
Flying Blind
In recent years, India has repeatedly expressed its ambitions of becoming a global power – or ‘jagat guru.’ Yet, many believe that India’s economic tr…
January 27, 2022
Tata
Nearly a century old, the grand façade of Bombay House is hard to miss in the historic business district of Mumbai. This is the iconic global headquar…
January 20, 2022
Gentlemanly Terrorists
Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) by Durba Ghosh uncovers the c…
January 3, 2022
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire (Bloomsbury, 2019) by Yuka Hiruma Kishida makes a fresh contri…
December 24, 2021
Diaspora’s Homeland
Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration (Duke University Press, 2018) by Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how…
December 14, 2021
Indian Migrants in Tokyo
Japan is often imagined as a homogeneous society with few immigrant communities, but it is increasingly home to migrants from across the world. How do…
November 11, 2021
Tokyo Boogie-Woogie
Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and its Discontents (Harvard University Press, 2017) by Hiromu Nagahara is the first English-language history of …
October 27, 2021
British Engagement with Japan, 1854-1922
Antony Best's British Engagement with Japan, 1854-1922: The Origins and Course of an Unlikely Alliance (Routledge, 2020) reconsiders the circumstances…