Colonial and post-colonial geographies of India
By: editors, Saraswati Raju, M. Satish Kumar, Stuart Corbridge.
Contributors: Raju, Saraswati.; Kumar, M. Satish, 1959-; Corbridge, Stuart.
Publisher: Aage Publications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Social ecology -- India.; Postcolonialism.; India -- Geography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Idioms, symbolism, and divisions : beyond the black and white towns in Madras, 1652-1850 / M. Satish Kumar; title: Home, community and nationality : Anglo-Indian women in India before and after Independence / Alison Blunt; title: Militant cartographies and traumatic spaces : Ayodhya, Bhuj and the contested geographies of Hindutva / Stuart Corbridge and Edward Simpson; title: Territoriality, Kashmir, and the evolving geopolitics of India-Pakistan relations / Robert W. Bradnock; title: From global to local : gendered discourses and embedded urban labour market in India / Saraswati Raju; title: Women's social transformation, NGOs, and globalization in urban India / Vandana Desai; title: Social labour and the geography of work in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu / Sharad Chari - Infotech industries and regional disparities in India / Martina Fromhold-Eisebith; title: Post-colonial developmentalities : from the Delhi Improvement Trust to the Delhi Development Authority / Stephen Legg; title: Post-modernism, post-Fordism and flexibilized metropolis : dialectical images of Mumbai / Swapna Banerjee-Guha; title: Urbane geographies : schooling, jobs, and the quest for civility in rural north India / Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery, and Roger Jeffery; title: Decentralization and participation in urban India : women community workers in a small town of West Bengal / Annapurna Shaw; title: India's evolving political ecologies / Glyn Williams and Emma Mawdsley; title: Carbon colonies : from local use value to global exchange in climate forestry / Paul Robbins; title: In the aftermath of critique : the journey after Sangtin Yatra / Richa Singh and Richa Nagar.