Colonial and post-colonial geographies of India

Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-352) and index.

Idioms, symbolism and divisions : beyond the black and white towns in Madras, 1652-1850 / M. Satish Kumar -- Home, community and nationality : Anglo-Indian women in India before and after Independence / Alison Blunt -- Militant cartographies and traumatic spaces : Ayodhya, Bhuj and the contested geographies of Hindutva / Stuart Corbridge and Edward Simpson -- Territoriality, Kashmir and the evolving geopolitics of India-Pakistan relations / Robert W. Bradnock -- From global to local : gendered discourses, skills and embedded urban labour market in India / Saraswati Raju -- Women's social transformation, NGOs and globalization in urban India / Vandana Desai -- Social labour and the geography of work in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu / Sharad Chari - Infotech industries and regional disparities in India / Martina Fromhold-Eisebith -- Post-colonial developmentalities : from the Delhi Improvement Trust to the Delhi Development Authority / Stephen Legg -- Post-modernism, post-Fordism and flexibilized metropolis : dialectical images of Mumbai / Swapna Banerjee-Guha -- Urbane geographies : schooling, jobs and the quest for civility in rural north India / Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery -- Decentralization and participation in urban India : women community workers in a small town of West Bengal / Annapurna Shaw -- India's evolving political ecologies / Glyn Williams and Emma Mawdsley -- Carbon colonies : from local use value to global exchange in climate forestry / Paul Robbins -- In the aftermath of critique : the journey after Sangtin Yatra / Richa Singh and Richa Nagar.