12-20-2005, 01:49 AM
url: http://www.dsp.unito.it/italindia/soci/mtorri.html
Description of work:
My research work deals with:
a) Gandhi, the freedom movement, the "Westernized middle class";
b) the maritime history of India, with special reference to Surat in
the second half of the 18th century;
c) Indian politics after independence.
At the moment I am working at a general history of India, focussed on the
interactions between India and the remainder of the world. So I guess that
among the topics explored in my reasearch work you could add:
d) the history of India as part of world history.
Apart from this, I am president of ITALINDIA, the Italian association of
modern Indian studies. ITALINDIA was founded a little more than one year
ago, with the aim of fostering the knowledge and understanding of modern
and contemporary India in Italy. It is mainly, but not only, an academic
association. The home page of ITALINDIA is at
http://www.dsp.unito.it/italindia/
but it is still under construction and only in Italian. Next month it will
be upgraded, but we will need some more time before having an English
version. Anyway, at the address
http://www.dsp.unito.it/italindia/pubbli.html
you will be able to download a paper of mine, _Studies in Italy on Modern
and Contemporary India_ that is a good introduction to the (not too
brilliant) Italian record of studies on the subject (the paper was
completed a little less than two years ago). Or, by clicking on _leggi un
abstract_, you will be able to read its synopsis.
Description of work:
My research work deals with:
a) Gandhi, the freedom movement, the "Westernized middle class";
b) the maritime history of India, with special reference to Surat in
the second half of the 18th century;
c) Indian politics after independence.
At the moment I am working at a general history of India, focussed on the
interactions between India and the remainder of the world. So I guess that
among the topics explored in my reasearch work you could add:
d) the history of India as part of world history.
Apart from this, I am president of ITALINDIA, the Italian association of
modern Indian studies. ITALINDIA was founded a little more than one year
ago, with the aim of fostering the knowledge and understanding of modern
and contemporary India in Italy. It is mainly, but not only, an academic
association. The home page of ITALINDIA is at
http://www.dsp.unito.it/italindia/
but it is still under construction and only in Italian. Next month it will
be upgraded, but we will need some more time before having an English
version. Anyway, at the address
http://www.dsp.unito.it/italindia/pubbli.html
you will be able to download a paper of mine, _Studies in Italy on Modern
and Contemporary India_ that is a good introduction to the (not too
brilliant) Italian record of studies on the subject (the paper was
completed a little less than two years ago). Or, by clicking on _leggi un
abstract_, you will be able to read its synopsis.