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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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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

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 series

RGS-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

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