Podcast with Erin MB O’Halloran, author of “East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars”

Erin MB O’Halloran

Sometimes, these thinkers found refuge and common cause in others elsewhere in the Empire–such as between India and Egypt, as Erin O’Halloran explores in her book East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World Between the Wars. India was the jewel in the British Empire’s crown; Egypt was the strategic artery that connected Britain’s eastern possessions with the metropole.

 

 

East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars, East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars (Stanford University Press, March 2025)

Erin, in her book, explores how Indian and Egyptian thinkers were inspired by each other, through the aftermath of the First World War, the Italian invasion of Abyssynia, the Palestinian question, and the onset of the Second World War. Erin is the Marie Sklodowska Curie European Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge.


Nicholas Gordon has an MPhil from Oxford in International Relations and a BA from Harvard. He is a writer, editor and occasional radio host based in Hong Kong.