Geographies of Anticolonialism: Political Networks Across and Beyond South India, c. 1900-1930 [Paperback]

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

Series Editors Preface vi

Acknowledgements vii

Authors 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 Aurobindos 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

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