Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London

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.

Author: Stephen Legg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/11/2023
Pages: 375
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.22w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781009215312
ISBN10: 1009215310
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia | South | General