The decades straddling the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century, which historians call the “age of revolutions”, traditionally encompass an Atlantic triangle of grand event. By looking to South Asia and the Indian Ocean, the intent is to shed light on the significance of events in this forgotten quarter of the globe at the time. Upon the French declaration of 1778 to fight Britain in the American Revolutionary War, Anglo-French rivalries in South Asia intensified as well and revolutionary rhetoric began to circulate. Indian rulers became interested in the theatres of war both in Europe and the Western Hemisphere and thus added to the globally connected interactions of different world regions. This paper aims to show how Indian, French, and British agents in the Indian Ocean used and interpreted global news to pursue their own interest. Far from being mere followers of what was crafted in the Atlantic, they created their own revolutionary or counter-revolutionary political agenda.

15. Dezember 2023 | in presence and online: Lorna Carson from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, will speak on „Establishing Transdisciplinary Research and Teaching in Asian Studies: the Foundational Role of Languages and Linguistics“.

12. Dezember 2023 | Präsenz: Um 18:00 Uhr hält Nicole Meissner-Kober einen Vortrag über die Preisträger des Nobelpreises für Physiologie und Medizin 2023, den sie für für ihre Entdeckungen zu Nukleosidbasen-Modifikationen, die die Entwicklung wirksamer mRNA-Impfstoffe gegen COVID-19 ermöglichten, erhalten haben.