{"product_id":"geographies-of-anticolonialism-9781119381549","title":"Geographies of Anticolonialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fresh approach to scholarship on the diverse nature of Indian anticolonial processes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together a varied selection of literature to explore Indian anticolonialism in new ways\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a different perspective to geographers seeking to understand political resistance to colonialism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses contemporary studies that argue nationalism was joined by other political processes, such as revolutionary and anarchist ideologies, to shape the Indian independence movement\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a focus on a specific anticolonial group, the Pondicherry Gang, and investigates their significant impact which went beyond South India\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHelps readers understand the diverse nature of anticolonialism, which in turn prompts thinking about the various geographies produced through anticolonial activity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, \u003ci\u003eGeographies of Anticolonialism\u003c\/i\u003e takes a spatial approach to the study of anticolonialism. Through an exploration of a cluster of little-known but fascinating figures situated in the French South Indian enclave of Pondicherry – poet Subramania Bharati, nationalist mobilizer V.O. Chidambaram Pillai, international anarchist M.P.T. Acharya and spiritual nationalist Aurobindo Ghosh – Andrew Davies makes a major contribution to the study of Indian freedom struggle as well as to global anticolonial thought.’  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e of History, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e‘In this wide-ranging, engagingly written and provocative historical geography of anticolonialism, Davies threads together analyses of sea networks, land hubs, politico-spiritual utopias and anarchist internationalism, which return to but are not confined within South India. Anticolonialism here broadens the scope of the de-colonial and adds ideological and material politics to the postcolonial, brilliantly contesting the territorial and epistemological boundaries of colonial geography.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Legg, Professor of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eGeographies of Anticolonialism\u003c\/i\u003e delves into a radical culture situated within and through the South Indian coastal city of Pondicherry. The stories and individual biographies (the book is centred around a ‘gang’ of four key anticolonial figures) that emerge are absorbing in themselves, from the alternative shipping routes of the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company (SSNCo) to the radical publishing networks associated with the writings of Subramania Bharati, and speak to much wider debates around resistance and spatial politics.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Griffin, Northumbria University\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003eSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor’s Note ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Post? Anti? De? Why Anticolonialism Still Matters 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Theorising Anticolonial Space 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 South India and Anticolonialism: The Minor Politics of Anticolonialism in a Historiographical ‘Backwater’ 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Appropriating Modernity and Development to Contest Colonialism: The \u003ci\u003eSwadeshi \u003c\/i\u003eMovement in South India and the \u003ci\u003eSwadeshi \u003c\/i\u003eSteam Navigation Company 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Spacing and Placing Anticolonialism: Pondicherry as a Hub of Radical Nationalist Anticolonial Thought 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Envisioning a Spiritual and Cosmopolitan Decolonial Future? Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Non-political’ Anticolonialism 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The ‘International’ and Anarchist Life of M.P.T. Acharya 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Conclusion: The Necessity of a Geographical Anticolonial Thought, or Why Anticolonialism Still Matters 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 169\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407042322775,"sku":"9781119381549","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119381549.jpg?v=1730497976","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/geographies-of-anticolonialism-9781119381549","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}