Sandeep Bhardwaj

Sandeep Bhardwaj is a doctoral candidate in History at Ashoka University, India. He has a Masters in International Relations from University of Chicago. His research interests include Indian diplomatic history, economic history, decolonisation, Asian regionalism, continuities between colonial and post-colonial Asia and Cold War-era Third Worldism.

His current project explores the evolution of India’s political, economic and conceptual relationship with the East Asia region (comprising modern-day Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia) from the inter-war period to the 1950s. In particular, he examines India’s changing location in the conceptual geography of Asia as imagined by Indian elites as well as external actors. The project explores five themes: regionalism, decolonisation, trade, economic multilateralism and diaspora.