{"product_id":"round-table-conference-geographies-constituting-colonial-india-in-interwar-london-hardback-9781009215312","title":"Round Table Conference Geographies; Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London (Hardback) 9781009215312","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRound Table Conference Geographies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConstituting Colonial India in Interwar London\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India's constitutional future.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Legg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009215312, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 May 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e375 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Legg helps us understand the contentious relationship between empire and democratisation through an underappreciated forum - the conference. With forensic and careful argumentation, Legg provides an intimate political geography of power and representation.' Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRound 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Note on Conclusions, Spellings and Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: Squaring Round Tables\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Geographical Imaginations: 2. Dominion and Dyarchy: The Absent Presences\u003cbr\u003e 3. Community: A Nation and a Table Divided\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Conference Infrastructures: 4. The Conference Method: Between Intention and Desire\u003cbr\u003e 5. Staffing the Conference: Experts and Subaltern Diplomats\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Speech Factory: Palace Materials and Communication Technologies\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Conference City: 7. A Hospitable City?: Official Socialising\u003cbr\u003e 8. Social London: Residing and Dining\u003cbr\u003e 9. At Homes: Political Hostessing and Homemaking\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Representations: 10. Petitions and Protests: The Page and the Street\u003cbr\u003e 11. Failure: Ending and Failing\u003cbr\u003e 12. Conclusion: Squaring Round Tables\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political geography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political geography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20geography%20%5BRGCP%5D%22\"\u003eRGCP\u003c\/a\u003e], Human geography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Human geography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Human%20geography%20%5BRGC%5D%22\"\u003eRGC\u003c\/a\u003e], History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], Historical geography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Historical geography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Historical%20geography%20%5BHBTP%5D%22\"\u003eHBTP\u003c\/a\u003e], History: specific events \u0026amp; topics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History: specific events \u0026amp; topics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History:%20specific%20events%20\u0026amp;%20topics%20%5BHBT%5D%22\"\u003eHBT\u003c\/a\u003e], History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45978343571736,"sku":"9781009215312","price":70.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781009215312i_51f4b124-9eb3-4213-b741-78e1ccea0aeb.jpg?v=1691359484","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/round-table-conference-geographies-constituting-colonial-india-in-interwar-london-hardback-9781009215312","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}