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DESCRIPTION:This panel examines India’s long history of transregional con
 nectivity without open borders\, from pre-modern maritime trade to contemp
 orary nationalism. Challenging linear narratives that equate globalization
  with universal openness\, we argue that Indian history reveals alternativ
 e models of connection structured by empires\, hierarchies\, and states. T
 his inquiry extends beyond physical borders to include the "epistemic cate
 gories" and "intellectual self-understanding" shaped by colonial pedagogy 
 and institutionalized learning. India thus offers a critical vantage point
  for rethinking world history in a moment of renewed borders and political
  closure. \nSpanning from the Harappan era to the digital age\, the papers
  analyze interconnection shaped by trust-based systems\, surveillance\, an
 d state power. Pre-modern trade networks linked South Asia to Africa and S
 outheast Asia through trust-based systems that remained socially bounded a
 nd uneven. Colonial rule intensified global entanglements through the circ
 ulation of labor and commodities while simultaneously redefining "knowledg
 e\, philosophy\, and religion" through a "politics of translation" that fr
 amed indigenous traditions within European categories. Moments of crisis\,
  such as global epidemics and the 1947 Partition\, demonstrate how connect
 ivity frequently provokes violent border-making and bureaucratic interdict
 ion. \nIn the postcolonial period\, India’s integration into global mark
 ets has coincided with hardened political borders\, nationalist discourses
 \, and new digital forms of exclusion. Taken together\, this panel argues 
 that India’s past complicates frameworks privileging globalization as a 
 coherent or inevitable process. Instead\, it highlights historical worlds 
 that were connected but not "globalized" in the modern sense\, offering es
 sential conceptual tools for a present characterized by contested globalis
 ms and the return of the border.
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LOCATION:Room 304 PC Desk (Seats 36)
SUMMARY:Connected Worlds\, Closed Borders: India and the Limits of Globaliz
 ation - R. Charles Weller\, Brijeshwari Kumari Gohil\, Hitesh D. Raviya\, 
 R.S. Khangarot
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/ZZJDFX/
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