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

Legg, Stephen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1009573322 ISBN 13: 9781009573320

Casa editrice: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2025

Riassunto

Round Table Conference Geographies explores a major international conference in 1930s London which determined India's constitutional future in the British Empire. Pre-dating the decolonising conferences of the 1950s–60s, the Round Table Conference laid the blueprint for India's future federal constitution. Despite this the conference is unanimously read as a failure, for not having comprehensively reconciled the competing demands of liberal and Indian National Congress politicians, of Hindus and Muslims, and of British versus Princely India. This book argues that the conference's three sessions were vital sites of Indian and imperial politics that demand serious attention. It explores the spatial politics of the conference in terms of its imaginary geographies, infrastructures, host city, and how the conference was contested and represented. The book concludes by asking who gained through representing the conference as a failure and explores it, instead, as a teeming political, social and material space.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1009573322
• ISBN 13: 9781009573320
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 413
• Contatto del produttore: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italia