Colonial and Post-Colonial Geographies of India

Saraswati Raju - Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
M Satish Kumar - Queen's University, Belfast
Stuart Corbridge - London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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This collection of original essays by scholars of geography from India, Western Europe and the US provides important insights into the way in which contemporary geographers are engaging with India. The earlier narrow colonial focus that sought to map India as a country of `resources` and ‘peoples’ (tribes and castes) has now been discarded for a broader view located in mainstream intellectual frameworks and informed by a public policy perspective. This volume highlights how contemporary geographers ‘see’ and write on colonial and post-colonial themes such as the state, nation, community, environment and division of labour, while keeping in mind issues of spatiality and territoriality.

Stuart Corbridge, M Satish Kumar and Saraswati Raju

Introduction

M Satish Kumar

Idioms, Symbolism and Divisions

Beyond the Black and White Towns in Madras, 1652-1850

Alison Blunt

Home, Community and Nationality

Anglo-Indian Women in India before and after Independence

Stuart Corbridge and Edward Simpson

Militant Cartographies and Traumatic Spaces

Ayodhya, Bhuj and the Contested Geographies of Hindutva

Robert W Bradnock

Territoriality, Kashmir and the Evolving Geopolitics of India-Pakistan Relations

Saraswati Raju

From Global to Local

Gendered Discourses and Embedded Urban Labour Market in India

Vandana Desai

Women's Social Transformation, NGOs and Globalization in Urban India

Sharad Chari

Social Labour and the Geography of Work in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu

Martina Fromhold-Eisebith

Infotech Industries and Regional Disparities in India

Stephen Legg

Post-Colonial Developmentalities

From the Delhi Improvement Trust to the Delhi Development Authority

Swapna Banerjee-Guha

Post-Modernism, Post-Fordism and Flexibilized Metropolis

Dialectical Images of Mumbai

Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery

Urbane Geographies

Schooling, Jobs and the Quest for Civility in Rural North India

Annapurna Shaw

Decentralization and Participation in Urban India

Women Community Workers in a Small Town of West Bengal

Glyn Williams and Emma Mawdsley

India's Evolving Political Ecologies

Paul Robbins

Carbon Colonies

From Local Use Value to Global Exchange in Climate Forestry

Richa Singh and Richa Nagar

In the Aftermath of Critique: The Journey after Sangtin Yatra

Index

"Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies of India offers a good introduction to and basis for rethinking the ways in which academics theorize and teach the geographies of peoples, places, and regions."
—Economic Geography

Haripriya Rangan

Monash University

Economic Geography

This book fills a very significant gap in the literature on the political–economic geography of India through the colonial and contemporary periods…. the panoramic range of ideas and material landscapes explored here makes this book a unique contribution to several fields of study.

Contributions to Indian Sociology

The interdisciplinary work throws new light on pressing contemporary issues as well as on issues during the colonial period. It is valuable not only for geographers but also for other social scientists concerned with society in the fast-changing world.

Journal of Social and Economic Development

This book is a very useful, timely and a much-needed addition to the geographic research on colonial and postcolonial India. It is a must-read for academicians and researchers working on India and development studies.

Asian Journal of Social Sciences

Colonial and Post-Colonial Geographies of India

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