{"id":711,"date":"2012-02-29T21:36:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=711"},"modified":"2012-02-29T21:36:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:36:44","slug":"february-29-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2012\/02\/29\/february-29-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"February 29, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s done. Well, I&#8217;ve finished writing the first draft. Reaching a total of 86 pages, my draft reflects the inclusive nature of the India Lobby itself. I know that I will have to make my final paper substantially more concise, but I&#8217;m currently operating under the principle of put it all in now and take it out later. I&#8217;ve actually not even fit all I wanted to say in this draft:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/files\/2012\/02\/March-1-NCIF.doc\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s<\/a> a two-page write-up of the National Committee for India&#8217;s Independence that I never seemed to find a spot for in the paper. I think that I&#8217;ll want to condense my descriptions of the official events in the U.S.-India relationship (like the Phillips mission) in particular to focus my narrative more around the India Lobby itself. I&#8217;ve added in subheadings in my two narrative chapters to provide more\u00a0organizational\u00a0structure. I decided to divide the narrative between the Cripps mission and the Quit India movement, the point when I argue, the India Lobby employed the internationalist rhetoric it had developed in strategic action. At this point, I sort of have nonexistent chapter titles, and I think I still need to figure out how to properly cite items from\u00a0microfilm and manuscript collection, but for a March 1 deadline, I&#8217;m satisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s done. Well, I&#8217;ve finished writing the first draft. Reaching a total of 86 pages, my draft reflects the inclusive nature of the India Lobby itself. I know that I will have to make my final paper substantially more concise, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2012\/02\/29\/february-29-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}