Lontani ma non troppo: le relazioni tra Italia e India dall’Unità d’Italia alla fine del fascismo (1861-1945)

• Autores: Giuseppe Spagnulo
• Localización: Nuova rivista storica, ISSN 0029-6236, Vol. 104, Nº. 3, 2020, págs. 1109-1160
• Idioma: italiano
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  • This essay deals with the topic of relations between India and Italy since the birthof the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 until the end of WWII.After an introduction regarding the long history of relations between Italians andIndians, the study focuses above all on the analysis of the Italian government’s attitudetowards the Indian nationalist movement during the liberal and fascist period. It wasduring Mussolini’s rule, with his growing interest in extending Italian political andeconomic influence to the Middle East and the Islamic world, that the need to payattention to Gandhi’s and Nehru’s movement began to grow. Italy’s objective was tonurture relations and contacts with Indian nationalism, anticipating some chancethat India would gain self-government. When, in the second half of the 1930s, relationsbetween Italy and Great Britain deteriorated, Italy kept in touch with the mostextremist anti-British nationalist leaders, such as Subhas Chandra Bose and IqbālShedai. The last part of the essay focuses on the different views by the powers of theAxis on the possibility of India’s independence, and on their attempts to destabilizeBritish India during WWII. In particular, the Italian point of view on how to useIndian nationalists and on the emerging pro-Pakistan movement is outlined.