{"id":422,"date":"2011-10-11T22:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T02:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=422"},"modified":"2011-10-11T22:39:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T02:39:27","slug":"october-11-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/11\/october-11-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"October 11, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I&#8217;ve focused in on doing some closer analysis of <em>India Today<\/em>. I&#8217;ve created posts for issues that I believe are significant because of an article&#8217;s topic, author, or the unique nature of the information included in a piece. When appropriate, I have uploaded a corresponding scanned image from the journal. I have paid special attention to <em>India Today<\/em>&#8216;s editorial column, &#8220;As We See It,&#8221; which ran in every issue (except one) from January 1941 to September 1944. So far, I have created a table that includes the basic subject of each column as well as the column&#8217;s closing sentence, which quite often are very short and pointed. I&#8217;m hoping to quantify my analysis, but I&#8217;m still figuring out how to go about that process.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent some time going further in depth on the leak of Phillips&#8217; report to Drew Pearson. Almost every source I&#8217;ve looked at has a variant on who the leakers actually were, and so I&#8217;ve created a second timeline post about the affair. I&#8217;m planning to do more research on the multiple characters that are identified in the different testimonials, and how the Indian Lobby may have been connected. At this point, I&#8217;m thinking of focusing in on the leak for my paper and presentation this semester. \u00a0My research has exposed a fair amount of disagreement on the impact of this episode among historians, and I think it would be more engaging for my Common Hour audience to outline a snapshot of the India Lobby in action. Along this point, I&#8217;m thinking of outlining my table of contents by year because there is about one major event that I would like to explore from 1941-1945:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1941: Introduction: Atlantic Charter and U.S. entry into the war<\/li>\n<li>1942: Cripps and Johnson missions; Quit India<\/li>\n<li>1942-1943: Phillips mission<\/li>\n<li>1944: Pearson leak<\/li>\n<li>1945: Conclusion: Mme. Pandit and U.N. San Francisco Conference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This outline would give me chapters roughly 10 pages in length (which may or may not be an appropriate length?). Also, I like the idea of starting my paper with the Atlantic Charter and the ideological background to the Indian issue and U.S. involvement, while concluding with an examination of the &#8220;ultimate&#8221; Indian ambassador to the U.S. at this time&#8211;Mme. Pandit.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I&#8217;m still mulling over the central questions that I hope my project will address. Because I&#8217;ve been mostly working on a micro-scale of what the Lobby was actually doing during this time period, I&#8217;m not yet comfortable with what the broader, macro-meaning of their actions would be.<\/p>\n<p>Although I was anticipating working with the NAACP microfilm that I had ordered from the Library of Congress this week, when I went to pick it up in the library, the item turned out to be the guide to the microfilm, which I already have access to. I&#8217;ve talked with the women in charge of inter-library loan, so hopefully this confusion is resolved and I will be able to look at the microfilm itself in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also done some basic reformatting of the blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I&#8217;ve focused in on doing some closer analysis of India Today. 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