Berenice Guyot-Rechard
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Professional affiliation
Wilson Center Projects
Governing the Sea: Indian Ocean Geopolitics, 1945-1990
Full Biography
A specialist of South Asia and the Indian Ocean, Dr. Guyot-Réchard holds a lectureship (assistant professorship) in contemporary international history at King’s College London. Her award-winning work focuses on the long-term impact of decolonization on the world as we know it today, particularly in terms of international politics. She has written extensively on Sino-Indian relations and on the strategic borderlands between India, Burma and Tibet. More recent work focuses on India’s practice of diplomacy and on South Asia and the international order. At the Wilson Center, she will be working on the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean since 1945. She regularly intervenes on South Asia-related issues in international media and policy circles.
Major Publications
"The Indian Ocean after 1945”. In Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives, ed. Prasannan Parthasarathi. Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2020.
Tangled Lands: Burma and India's Unfinished Separation, 1937–1948. The Journal of Asian Studies, 1-23, 2020.
The fear of being compared: State-shadowing in the Himalayas, 1910 62, Political Geography, 2019.
Coping with defeat. Posters of the 1962 Sino-Indian War, Invisible Histories, 2018.
'Tour diaries and itinerant governance in the eastern Himalayas, ca.1909-1962', The Historical Journal (60:4), 1023-1046, 2017.
Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
“When legions thunder past: The Second World War and India’s north-east frontier”, in War in History 25:3 (2018), 328-60
"Nation-building or state-making? India's North-East Frontier and the ambiguities of Nehruvian developmentalism, 1950–1959” in Contemporary South Asia, 21:1 (2013), 22-37.