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Shattering the ‘looking-glass world’: the Congress for Cultural Freedom in South Asia, 1951–55 (2020)

Thomas William Shillam (Author)

Cold War History
Volume: 20
Issue: 4
Pages: 441-459
Publication date: 2020
Language: English

DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1699067

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Decolonization Communism Cold War Colonialism 20th century India South Asia United States. Central Intelligence Agency Congress for Cultural Freedom

This paper assesses the thought and philosophy of South Asian intellectuals affiliated to the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). The CCF’s founders – anti-communist European and American scholars – encouraged allies across several continents to establish magazines and organise conferences warning of the threats posed by ‘totalitarianism’ to free cultural expression. But South Asian members, more interested in postcolonial politics, used its resources to initiate transnational conversations about social change. Probing neglected local CCF magazines and seminar transcripts, the paper also constitutes an early intervention on intersections between the cultural Cold War and decolonisation among non-state actors in the region.

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