Travel Memoirs of Indian Freedom Fighters to Post-Revolutionary Mexico: An Epitome of Transversal Dialogue Between Two Spaces of the Global South

India and Latin America have historically witnessed the presence of cross-cultural dialogue for centuries. Latin American intelligentsia was well informed about the struggle for Indian national liberation and thus formed critical opinions about the ideas emanating from there. One of the ways of information flow was through the travelers who visited Latin America. These ideas from India led them, sometimes, toward spiritual matters (Theosophical) and others towards revolutionary politics. I will deal with the second aspect based on my reading of the Memoirs of two Indian freedom fighters, Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje and Manabendranath Roy. Similar conditions compelled the two contemporaries from India to travel to Mexico in the 1920s. Their engagement with Mexican people resulted in strengthening the existing knowledges, as well as proposing new ways of knowing and being. These contacts represent their world according to their perspectives so that “the cognitive justice may mirror and enhance the cognitive diversity of the world.” (Santos and Meneses 243). My reading of these memoirs will focus on the transversal dialogue between India and Mexico and discuss the transfer and sharing of knowledge between the two nations in their formation.