TY  - BOOK
AU  - Namakkal,Jessica
TI  - Unsettling utopia: the making and unmaking of French India 
T2  - Columbia studies in international and global history
SN  - 9780231197687
AV  - DS485.P66 N36 2021
U1  - 954.02/9 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Utopias
KW  - French India
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - France
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -