Unsettling utopia : the making and unmaking of French India /
Namakkal, Jessica,
Unsettling utopia : the making and unmaking of French India / Jessica Namakkal. - pages cm. - Columbia studies in international and global history .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : On minor borders and colonial time -- Chapter 1 : Carceral borders: exile, surveillance, and subversion -- Chapter 2 : The future of French India: decolonization and settlement at the borders -- Chapter 3 : Making the postcolonial subject : Goondas, refugees, and citizens -- Chapter 4 : Decolonial crossings: settlers, migrants, tourists -- Chapter 5: From the Ashram to Auroville: utopia as settlement -- Conclusion : The messiness of colonialism.
"Unsettling Utopia looks to French India, five territories held by the French scattered throughout the South Asian subcontinent, to explore the connections between colonialism, settlement, border-making, decolonization, citizenship, and utopian place-making. Historian Jessica Namakkal begins with the early days of colonization in French Pondicherry, "The Paris of India," and traces the unusual tensions between European colonial powers looking to remake India in their own image. Later, she explores how after formal decolonization took hold across the subcontinent, Western-led ashrams and utopian communities that remained--most notably the Sri Aurobindo community near Pondicherry--came to exercise a form of de-facto colonization that lasts to the present day. Drawing on a mix of original archival research and contemporary ethnography, this book uniquely repositions an understudied colonial encounter to shed new light on the legacies of colonialism"--
9780231197687 9780231197694
2020049323
Decolonization--History.--India
Utopias--History.--India
French India--History.
French India--Politics and government.
India--Foreign relations--France.
France--Foreign relations--India.
DS485.P66 / N36 2021
954.02/9
Unsettling utopia : the making and unmaking of French India / Jessica Namakkal. - pages cm. - Columbia studies in international and global history .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : On minor borders and colonial time -- Chapter 1 : Carceral borders: exile, surveillance, and subversion -- Chapter 2 : The future of French India: decolonization and settlement at the borders -- Chapter 3 : Making the postcolonial subject : Goondas, refugees, and citizens -- Chapter 4 : Decolonial crossings: settlers, migrants, tourists -- Chapter 5: From the Ashram to Auroville: utopia as settlement -- Conclusion : The messiness of colonialism.
"Unsettling Utopia looks to French India, five territories held by the French scattered throughout the South Asian subcontinent, to explore the connections between colonialism, settlement, border-making, decolonization, citizenship, and utopian place-making. Historian Jessica Namakkal begins with the early days of colonization in French Pondicherry, "The Paris of India," and traces the unusual tensions between European colonial powers looking to remake India in their own image. Later, she explores how after formal decolonization took hold across the subcontinent, Western-led ashrams and utopian communities that remained--most notably the Sri Aurobindo community near Pondicherry--came to exercise a form of de-facto colonization that lasts to the present day. Drawing on a mix of original archival research and contemporary ethnography, this book uniquely repositions an understudied colonial encounter to shed new light on the legacies of colonialism"--
9780231197687 9780231197694
2020049323
Decolonization--History.--India
Utopias--History.--India
French India--History.
French India--Politics and government.
India--Foreign relations--France.
France--Foreign relations--India.
DS485.P66 / N36 2021
954.02/9