A fresh approach to scholarship on the diverse nature of Indian anticolonial processes.
- Brings together a varied selection of literature to explore Indian anticolonialism in new ways
- Offers a different perspective to geographers seeking to understand political resistance to colonialism
- Addresses contemporary studies that argue nationalism was joined by other political processes, such as revolutionary and anarchist ideologies, to shape the Indian independence movement
- Includes a focus on a specific anticolonial group, the “Pondicherry Gang,” and investigates their significant impact which went beyond South India
- Helps readers understand the diverse nature of anticolonialism, which in turn prompts thinking about the various geographies produced through anticolonial activity
Table of Contents
Series Editor’s Preface vi
Acknowledgements vii
Author’s Note ix
1 Post? Anti? De? Why Anticolonialism Still Matters 1
2 Theorising Anticolonial Space 19
3 South India and Anticolonialism: The Minor Politics of Anticolonialism in a Historiographical ‘Backwater’ 40
4 Appropriating Modernity and Development to Contest Colonialism: The Swadeshi Movement in South India and the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company 68
5 Spacing and Placing Anticolonialism: Pondicherry as a Hub of Radical Nationalist Anticolonial Thought 90
6 Envisioning a Spiritual and Cosmopolitan Decolonial Future? Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Non-political’ Anticolonialism 115
7 The ‘International’ and Anarchist Life of M.P.T. Acharya 137
8 Conclusion: The Necessity of a Geographical Anticolonial Thought, or Why Anticolonialism Still Matters 161
Bibliography 166
Index 169
