So...what if I turned this conference paper on stamp design into an article on imperial iconography and nationalism? Political history is still political science and I think the case study of British imperialist symbolism in the 1930s could be fascinating...

One of the biggest findings of my conf. paper was that India& #39;s commemoration of George V& #39;s silver jubilee basically involved a last ditch effort to hybridize British symbols of empire and the monarch with domestic Indian landmarks and symbols.

It largely failed in the Indian case where there was already a nascent and developing nationalist movement which rejected the alien nature of British imperial occupation. But elsewhere in the Empire, there& #39;s evidence it had the opposite effect: reminders of empire strengthened it

I feel like there& #39;s a good thread I can tease out here: when the state co-opts national symbology, does it do *more* harm than if the state celebrates its own imperial nature? That& #39;s the key difference between India and, say, New Zealand in terms of commemoration.

Guess I& #39;m going to the library after class tomorrow.