Kate O'Malley works for the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series and is a research associate with the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsAbbreviations Introduction1. The Communist Menace2. V.J. Patel and the Indian-Irish Independence League3. Subhas Chandra Bose and Ireland4. The Second World War and the ‘Vanishing Empire’5. A Commonwealth RepublicConclusionBiographical notesAppendicesBibliographyIndex

'This highly original study shows not only the interchange of ideas and support between Irish and Indian separatists, and their shared ambitions and challenges in seeking emancipation from British rule, but the extent to which the imperial government also studied Irish and Indian nationalism in parallel. The book is consequently an important contribution to the intertwined histories of Ireland, India and the British empire.' Professor Eunan O'Halpin, Trinity College Dublin

Kate O'Malley works for the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series and is a research associate with the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsAbbreviations Introduction1. The Communist Menace2. V.J. Patel and the Indian-Irish Independence League3. Subhas Chandra Bose and Ireland4. The Second World War and the ‘Vanishing Empire’5. A Commonwealth RepublicConclusionBiographical notesAppendicesBibliographyIndex

'This highly original study shows not only the interchange of ideas and support between Irish and Indian separatists, and their shared ambitions and challenges in seeking emancipation from British rule, but the extent to which the imperial government also studied Irish and Indian nationalism in parallel. The book is consequently an important contribution to the intertwined histories of Ireland, India and the British empire.' Professor Eunan O'Halpin, Trinity College Dublin

Kate O'Malley works for the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series and is a research associate with the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsAbbreviations Introduction1. The Communist Menace2. V.J. Patel and the Indian-Irish Independence League3. Subhas Chandra Bose and Ireland4. The Second World War and the ‘Vanishing Empire’5. A Commonwealth RepublicConclusionBiographical notesAppendicesBibliographyIndex

'This highly original study shows not only the interchange of ideas and support between Irish and Indian separatists, and their shared ambitions and challenges in seeking emancipation from British rule, but the extent to which the imperial government also studied Irish and Indian nationalism in parallel. The book is consequently an important contribution to the intertwined histories of Ireland, India and the British empire.' Professor Eunan O'Halpin, Trinity College Dublin