{"product_id":"unsettling-utopia-9780231197694","title":"Unsettling Utopia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. \u003ci\u003eUnsettling Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new account of the history of twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the decolonization of French India, Namakkal's lucid and innovative book brings together the history of state-led decolonization and the creation of utopias to reveal how both projects relied on regimes of labor, erasure, and territorial expansion that had much in common with the colonizing project. Engaging, ambitious, and deeply researched, \u003ci\u003eUnsettling Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e brings new and important insights to our understanding of the temporal boundaries of colonialism and decolonization. -- Danna Agmon, author of \u003ci\u003eA Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica Namakkal’s excellent book reveals hidden layers of Pondicherry’s feigned decolonization and ongoing recolonization. This tour de force is the kind of book you don't want to finish; it keeps you right on the edge of your seat, avidly turning the pages for more. -- Ari Gautier, author of \u003ci\u003eLe Thinnai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnsettling Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating book on the postcolonial history of French India as well as a provocative analysis of the structural relationships among colonial settlement, utopian thinking, and the incompleteness of decolonization. Namakkal’s immense effort to engage the far-flung transnational archives of French India inform this important book and the revealing light it sheds on the messy history of French imperialism in southern India and its spatial, social, and spiritual afterlives. -- Tariq Jazeel, author of \u003ci\u003eSacred Modernity: Nature, Environment, and the Postcolonial Geographies of Sri Lankan Nationhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is by far and away the most scholarly, yet readable, account of the long twentieth century in Pondicherry\/Puducherry. . . . This excellent book deserves to be read widely by historians, sociologists, geographers, political scientists and more. * H-Soz-Kult *\u003cbr\u003eBy looking through the lens of minor histories, \u003ci\u003eUnsettling Utopia \u003c\/i\u003eis able to uncover and challenge the mythmaking exercises of former colonisers, the blind spots of the anticolonial nationalist movement, and the complicities of the postcolonial nation-state. * Himal Southasian *\u003cbr\u003eNamakkal's book helped me examine my own experiences anew in the context of Pondicherry's colonial history. I heartily recommend this book to readers keen on understanding how the past continues into the present. * Hindustan Times *\u003cbr\u003eNuanced, rich, [with] extensive detail...this is by far and away the most scholarly, yet readable, account of the long twentieth century in Pondicherry\/Puducherry. -- Andy Davies * H-Soz-Kult *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eChronology  \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: On Minor Borders and Colonial Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: Making\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1. Carceral Borders: Exile, Surveillance, and Subversion\u003cbr\u003e2. The Future of French India: Decolonization and Settlement at the Borders\u003cbr\u003e3. Making the Postcolonial Subject: Goondas, Refugees, and Citizens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Unmaking\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Decolonial Crossings: Settlers, Migrants, Tourists\u003cbr\u003e5. From the Ashram to Auroville: Utopia as Settlement\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Messiness of Colonialism\u003cbr\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400353096023,"sku":"9780231197694","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231197694.jpg?v=1730470470","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unsettling-utopia-9780231197694","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}