TY  - GEN
T1  - Unsettling utopia the making and unmaking of French India
T2  - Columbia studies in international and global history.
A1  - Namakkal, Jessica
LA  - English
PP  - New York
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1224584549
AB  - "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"--
CN  - DS485.P66 N36 2021eb
SN  - 0231552297
SN  - 9780231552295
SN  - 9780231197687
SN  - 9780231197694
KW  - Decolonization : India : History.
KW  - Utopias : India : History.
KW  - French India : History.
KW  - French India : Politics and government.
KW  - India : Foreign relations : France.
KW  - France : Foreign relations : India.
KW  - Décolonisation : Inde : Histoire.
KW  - Utopies : Inde : Histoire.
KW  - Inde : Relations extérieures : France.
KW  - France : Relations extérieures : Inde.
KW  - HISTORY : Asia : India & South Asia.
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Utopias
KW  - France
KW  - India
KW  - India : French India
KW  - History
ER  -