Explores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India's constitutional future. This geographical analysis explores the imaginations, infrastructures, urban spaces and contestations of the meeting.
Explores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India's constitutional future. This geographical analysis explores the imaginations, infrastructures, urban spaces and contestations of the meeting.
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).
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List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Note on Conclusions, Spellings and Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Squaring Round Tables Part I. Geographical Imaginations: 2. Dominion and Dyarchy: The Absent Presences 3. Community: A Nation and a Table Divided Part II. Conference Infrastructures: 4. The Conference Method: Between Intention and Desire 5. Staffing the Conference: Experts and Subaltern Diplomats 6. The Speech Factory: Palace Materials and Communication Technologies Part III. The Conference City: 7. A Hospitable City?: Official Socialising 8. Social London: Residing and Dining 9. At Homes: Political Hostessing and Homemaking Part IV. Representations: 10. Petitions and Protests: The Page and the Street 11. Failure: Ending and Failing 12. Conclusion: Squaring Round Tables Notes References Index.
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Note on Conclusions, Spellings and Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Squaring Round Tables Part I. Geographical Imaginations: 2. Dominion and Dyarchy: The Absent Presences 3. Community: A Nation and a Table Divided Part II. Conference Infrastructures: 4. The Conference Method: Between Intention and Desire 5. Staffing the Conference: Experts and Subaltern Diplomats 6. The Speech Factory: Palace Materials and Communication Technologies Part III. The Conference City: 7. A Hospitable City?: Official Socialising 8. Social London: Residing and Dining 9. At Homes: Political Hostessing and Homemaking Part IV. Representations: 10. Petitions and Protests: The Page and the Street 11. Failure: Ending and Failing 12. Conclusion: Squaring Round Tables Notes References Index.
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