Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London - Hardcover

Legg, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009215310 ISBN 13: 9781009215312

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Explores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India's constitutional future.

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About the Author

Stephen Legg is Professor of Historical Geography at University of Nottingham, England. He is a specialist on interwar colonial India with a particular interest in the politics of urban space within imperial and international frames. He has analyzed these spaces and frames through drawing upon theoretical approaches from memory scholarship, postcolonialism, political theory and governmentality studies. He published the co-edited volume (with Deana Heath) South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings with the Press in 2018. Some of his other publications are Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (2007), Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India (2014) and the edited collection Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos (2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009215310
• ISBN 13: 9781009215312
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 414