Carolien Stolte is Associate Professor of History at the Institute for History. She specializes in modern global history with a regional focus on South Asia.

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Research

My research is situated at the intersection of global, international, and South Asian history. I am particularly interested in how ideas travel to and from South Asia. My first book examined the traffic of religious ideas, specifically the production of knowledge on Hinduism in the Dutch Republic (New Delhi: Manohar, 2012). My further work has focused on histories of (Pan)Asianism, Afro-Asianism and other political formations from the late nineteenth century up to the present. Together with Su Lin Lewis at Bristol University, I co-directed the The Afro-Asian Networks project, a collaborative project examining the participation of activists, artists, and writers in the Afro-Asian solidarity movements of the Bandung era. In addition to special issues in the Journal of World History and the Journal of Social History and a reflection on our research group’s methodology in Radical History Review, the group also created a dataset and visualization of the Afro-Asian movements we studied.

I currently lead the Peace Movements Project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the European Research Council (ERC). This global history project looks at the entanglements of peace work and decolonization from the First World War through the Cold War years. In addition, I edit the Global Connections: Routes and Roots series at Leiden University Press and am part of the editorial team for the upcoming five-volume Cambridge History of Colonialism and Decolonization. I regularly comment on the politics and history of India in Dutch media and at public events.

Books

Carolien Stolte and Su Lin Lewis (eds.), The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism (Leiden University Press, 2022).

Michele Louro, Carolien Stolte, Heather Streets-Salter and Sana Tannoury Karam (eds.), The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives (Leiden University Press, 2020).

Carolien Stolte and Alicia Schrikker, World History: a Genealogy (Leiden University Press, 2017).

Carolien Stolte and Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Eurasian Encounters: Museums, Missions, Modernities (Amsterdam University Press, 2016).

Carolien Stolte, Philip Angel’s Deex-Autaers: Vaisnava mythology from manuscript to book market in the context of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1600-1672 (Manohar Press, 2012). 

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