(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011) Irwin, Ryan M.
This essay considers the relationship between the United Nations and the Third
World. Using the apartheid debate as a framing device, it explores Indian and
African nationalism in the mid-1940s and early 1960s. In focusing on themes of
nationhood, statehood, and international order, the essay explicates the factors that
separated Indian nationalists from their contemporaries in Africa, and hints at a
novel portrait of the Third World as a contested political project in the mid-twentieth
century.