Between Empire and Nation

Maria Framke is a historian of modern South Asia based at the History Department at Erfurt University in Germany. Her research and publications cover the history of international organisations, humanitarianism and development, and gender in the 20th century. She co-edited the 2023 Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia.

• List of Figures and Table; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Imperial Humanitarianism and Nationalism during the First World War: Introduction; 1. Growing with and beyond the Red Cross Movement: The Relief Work of the Indian St. John Ambulance Association during the First World War; 2. 'Our Proud Privilege to Nurse the Indian Soldiers Back to Health!': The Indian Field Ambulance Training Corps; Part II. Anti-imperial Solidarity and Relief in the 1930s; Introduction: 3. Humanitarianism as Tool of Anticolonial Emancipation: The Indian Medical Mission to China; Part III. Intra-imperial Non-state Relief Work in the Context of the Second World War and Early Decolonization: Introduction; 4. 'A Remarkable Piece of Humanitarian Work': The Indian Comforts Fund; 5. National Self-assertion and Anticolonial Emancipation: The (Medical) Relief Work of the Indian National Congress in Malaya; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.