{"id":291,"date":"2011-10-07T17:51:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T17:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?page_id=291"},"modified":"2011-10-07T17:51:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T17:51:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becca Solnit prepared an honors thesis for the Dickinson College History Department in 2011-12. \u00a0She analyzed the efforts of the India Lobby in the United States to gain support for Indian independence during World War II. In many ways the India Lobby is a &#8220;forgotten lobby,&#8221; and in the course of her project Solnit explores how the Lobby&#8217;s two-stage evolution during a unique wartime period illuminates the the strategies and tactics of a developing modern lobby. To read her project proposal, click <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/files\/2011\/10\/Solnit-honors-prospectus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The first chapter of Solnit&#8217;s project, which she presented to the history department on December 1, can be viewed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/files\/2011\/10\/Solnit-honors-ch.-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. To read her completed thesis, which received departmental honors in May 2012, click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/files\/2011\/10\/Solnit-honors-thesis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becca Solnit prepared an honors thesis for the Dickinson College History Department in 2011-12. \u00a0She analyzed the efforts of the India Lobby in the United States to gain support for Indian independence during World War II. In many ways the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}