Deepak Warrier (Mr)

Proposed Thesis Title:  Expatriate Patriots and Migrant Citizens: The Indian National Army in Malaya
Supervisor: Associate Professor Medha Kudaisya and Dr Jennifer Yip

I am interested in histories of mobility and exchange between South and Southeast Asia in the twentieth century. I graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors in History (with high honours) and Economics from New York University, where I became interested in how nations, nationalism, and nation-states came to dominate our contemporary political worldviews. My senior thesis, on Nehru’s 1946 visit to Malaya, won the History Department’s Best Honors Thesis prize. My MA project retreats a few years in time to study the Indian Independence League of Japanese-occupied Malaya (and its more well-known counterpart, the Indian National Army). I am interested in the contrasting transnational imaginaries of elite and subaltern actors, as well as the conceptions of masculinity and youth that were enlisted into this wartime effort at reordering global imperial boundaries.

In my free time, I play the saxophone (badly). I would love to chat or collaborate with my peers and colleagues, and I am happy to be contacted at deepak.warrier@u.nus.edu.