Geographies of Anticolonialism Political Networks Across and Beyond South India, c. 1900-1930

'Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, Geographies of Anticolonialism takes a spatial approach to the study of anticolonialism. Through an exploration of a cluster of little-known but fascinating figures situated in the French South Indian enclave of Pondicherry - poet Subramania Bharati, nationalist mobilizer V.O. Chidambaram Pillai, international anarchist M.P.T. Acharya and spiritual nationalist Aurobindo Ghosh - Andrew Davies makes a major contribution to the study of Indian freedom struggle as well as to global anticolonial thought.'
A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor of History, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India
 
'In this wide-ranging, engagingly written and provocative historical geography of anticolonialism, Davies threads together analyses of sea networks, land hubs, politico-spiritual utopias and anarchist internationalism, which return to but are not confined within South India. Anticolonialism here broadens the scope of the de-colonial and adds ideological and material politics to the postcolonial, brilliantly contesting the territorial and epistemological boundaries of colonial geography.'
Stephen Legg, Professor of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK