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Geographies of anticolonialism : political networks across and beyond South India, c. 1900-1930
- Title
- Geographies of anticolonialism : political networks across and beyond South India, c. 1900-1930 / Andrew Davies.
- Author
- Davies, Andrew, 1962 February 8-
- Publication
- Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2020.
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Details
- Description
- x, 174 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Geographies of Anticolonialism brings together a varied selection of historical sources and literature to explore Indian anticolonialism in new ways. Anticolonialism, an often overlooked concept in geography, can be defined as internal and external resistance to the practices and by-products of colonial rule, such as racism, militarism, resource exploitation, and land dispossession. Linked to, but different from post- and decolonial approaches, anticolonial geographies are explicitly political in nature - offering a different perspective to geographers seeking to understand political resistance to colonialism. The author addresses contemporary studies that argue nationalism was joined by other political processes, such as revolutionary and anarchist ideologies, to shape the Indian independence movement. A focus on a specific anticolonial group, the "Pondicherry Gang," investigates their significant impact which exceeded their small numbers and short period of activity. Operating in the south of India, an underrepresented area of study when compared to Bengal and the Punjab, members of the Pondicherry resistance became spiritual gurus, reinvigorated the Tamil language, and conducted the only political assassination in the region. In examining such activities, Geographies of Anticolonialism helps readers understand the diverse nature of anticolonialism, which in turn prompts thinking about the various geographies produced through anticolonial activity"--
- Series Statement
- RGS-IBG book series
- Uniform Title
- RGS-IBG book series.
- Subject
- 1765-1999
- Anti-imperialist movements > India, South > History > 20th century
- Decolonization > India, South > History > 20th century
- Anti-imperialist movements
- Decolonization
- Historical geography
- Politics and government
- India, South > Historical geography
- Puducherry (India) > History > 20th century
- India > Politics and government > 1765-1947
- India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947
- India
- India > Puducherry
- South India
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Post? Anti? De? Why anticolonialism still matters -- Theorising anticolonial space -- South India and anti-colonialism : the minor politics of anti-colonialism in a historiographical 'backwater' -- Appropriating modernity and development to contest colonialism : the Swadeshi movement in South India and the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company -- Spacing and placing anticolonialism : Pondicherry as a hub of radical nationalist anticolonial thought -- Envisioning a spiritual and cosmopolitan decolonial future? Sri Aurobindo's 'non-political' anticolonialism -- The 'international' and anarchist life of MPT Acharya -- Conclusions: The necessity of a geographical anticolonial thought, or why anticolonialism still matters.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-3986
- ISBN
- 9781119381549
- 1119381541
- 9781119381556
- 111938155X
- 9781119381570 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781119381563 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019035280
- OCLC
- 1134458581
- Author
- Davies, Andrew, 1962 February 8- author.
- Title
- Geographies of anticolonialism : political networks across and beyond South India, c. 1900-1930 / Andrew Davies.
- Publisher
- Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- RGS-IBG book seriesRGS-IBG book series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1765-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Davies, Andrew, 1962 February 8- Geographies of anticolonialism. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2020 9781119381570 (DLC) 2019035281
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-3986