Author: ed. Raju Sarawati
Place: New Delhi
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 2006
Pages: 368
ISBN: 0-7619-3436-7
Subject: Geography
Sub-Subject: Post-Colonia Geography
Keyword: Colonial Geography, Post-Colonial Themes, Geography of India, Community and Environment
Classification: 304.2
Shelf: C1R3
Accession No: B665
Contents: Contents : List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction : Stuart Corbridge, Saraswati Raju and M. Satish Kumar; 2. Idioms, Symbolism and Divisions : beyond the Black and White Towns i Madras, 1652-1850 by M.Sattish Kumar; 3. Home, Communityand Nationality : anglo – Indian women in India before and after Independence by Alison Blunt; 4. Militant Cartographies and Traumatic Spaces : Adyodhya, Bhuj and the Contested Geographies of Hindutva by Stuart Corbridge and edward Simpson; 5. Territoriality, Kashmir and the Evolving Geopolitics of India- Pakistan Relations by Robert W. Bradnock; 6. From Global to local : Gendered Discources, Skills and Embedded Urban Labour Market in India by Saraswati Raju; 7. Women`s social Transformations, NGOs and Globalisation in Urban India by Vandana Desai; 8. Social labour and the Geography of work in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu by Sharad Chari; 9. Infotech Industries and Regional Disparities in India by Martina Fromhold-Eisebith; 10. Post-Colonial Developmentalities : from the Delhi improvement trust to the delhi development authority by Stehen Legg; 11. Post-Modernism, Post – Fordism and Flexibilized Metropolis : Dialectical images of mumbai by Swapna Banerjee -Guha; 12. Urbane Geographies : Schooling, jobs and the Quest for Civility in rural North India by Craig jeffrey, patricia jeffery and roger jeffery; 13. Decentralization and participation in urban india : Women Community workers in a small town of west bengal by Annapurna shaw; 14. India`s Evolving political ecologies by Glyn Williams and Emma Mawdsley; 15. Carbon Colonies : from local use value to global exchange in climat forestry by paul robbins; 16. In the aftermath of Critque : the journey after Sangtin Yatra by Richa Singh and Richa Nagar; references and select bibliography; about the editors and contributors; index
Abstract: This collection of original essays by scholars of geography from India, Western Europe and the US provides important insights into the way in which contemporary geographers are engaging with India. The earlier narrow colonial focus that sought to map India as a country of `resources` and ‘peoples’ (tribes and castes) has now been discarded for a broader view located in mainstream intellectual frameworks and informed by a public policy perspective. This volume highlights how contemporary geographers ‘see’ and write on colonial and post-colonial themes such as the state, nation, community, environment and division of labour, while keeping in mind issues of spatiality and territoriality.