Geographies of anticolonialism: political networks across and beyond South India, c. 1900-1930
In: RGS-IBG book series
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.