TY  - BOOK
AU  - Legg,Stephen
TI  - Spaces of anticolonialism: Delhi's urban governmentalities 
T2  - Geographies of justice and social transformation
SN  - 9780820367859
AV  - DS485.D3 L44 20
U1  - 954.56 L524S 23/eng/20241126
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Indian National Congress
KW  - Anti-imperialist movements
KW  - India
KW  - Delhi
KW  - History
KW  - Civil disobedience
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Delhi (India)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Historical geography
KW  - New Delhi (India)
KW  - 1919-1947
KW  - Quit India movement, 1942
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Anti-imperial Delhi -- Delhi's anticolonial archive -- A disobedient city -- The Gurdwara Sisganj : problematizing nonviolence -- Urban conflict and collaboration -- Quit Delhi : the overground -- The Underground : problematizing nonviolence -- Victory?
N2  - "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities provides a spatial analysis of the anticolonial governmentalities that emerged in the colonial capital of British India. Reading across imperial and nationalist archives, newspapers, memoirs, oral histories, and interviews it exposes the subaltern geographies and struggles which have traditionally been overshadowed by the presence of national leaders in Delhi. It reads the new capital and the old city as one interconnected political landscape and tracks the efforts of the Indian National Congress to mobilize and marshal support for the mass movements of Civil Disobedience (1930-34), Quit India (1942-43), and beyond. This bottom-up analysis, focused on the streets, bazaars, neighborhoods, homes, and undergrounds of the two cities, emphasizes the significance of the articulation of physical and political space; it highlights the pioneering role of women in crafting these spaces; and it exposes the micro-techniques that Congress used to encourage Gandhi's nonviolence. Michel Foucault's final lectures on parrhesia (courageous speech and actions) are used to analyze these spaces of anticolonialism as coherent governmentalities which were themselves rejected by those who turned to violence in the years before independence in 1947. This volume provides an innovative study of anticolonial geography and a restive history of the capital of contemporary India's 1.4 billion people"--
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