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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Note -- Chapter One Post? Anti? De? Why Anticolonialism Still Matters -- Introduction -- 'Postcolonial' Geographies? -- Decolonial Geographies? -- Geographies of Anticolonialism? -- References -- Chapter Two Theorising Anticolonial Space -- Introduction -- Philosophies of Anticolonialism -- Minor/Anti/'Small-p' Politics -- Gandhian Anticolonialism - Hind Swaraj -- A Further Critique of Anticolonialism as Nationalism or What Is Anticolonialism? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Three South India and Anticolonialism: The Minor Politics of Anticolonialism in a Historiographical 'Backwater' -- Introduction -- Violence and Non‐violence -- The National and Inter/Transnationalism -- The Elite Versus the Subaltern -- Tamilian South India - Politics and Society in a 'Backwater' of Historical and Geographical Research -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Four Appropriating Modernity and Development to Contest Colonialism: The Swadeshi Movement in South India and the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company -- Introduction -- Maritime and Indian Ocean Geographies -- The Swadeshi Movement in India -- The Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company & -- the 'Tinnevelly Riot' -- Maritime Anticolonialisms -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Five Spacing and Placing Anticolonialism: Pondicherry as a Hub of Radical Nationalist Anticolonial Thought -- Introduction -- The Emergent Spaces of Anticolonial Politics in Madras Presidency and Pondicherry -- The Life and Exile of Subramania Bharati -- The Life and Times of the 'Pondicherry Gang' -- Revolutionary Violence and the Assassination of Robert Ashe -- Conclusion: Exile and the Place of Anticolonialism -- References.

AbstractIn this article, I explore the spatial politics of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of 1946 and call for a more maritime sense of 'the political'. The RIN only existed from 1934 to 1950; it became the Indian Navy after independence. Its mutiny in 1946, which was caused by a number of grievances from anticolonial nationalism to more mundane challenges about the standard of food, continues to be the dominant event in this history. Leela Gandhi (2014) used the RIN mutiny to challenge the binary distinction between elite and subaltern in much Indian historiography by depicting it as an 'anti‐colonial counterpublic', or space in which discourses other than the dominant nationalist framings of independence were mobilized. She also regards the mutiny as a potential example of inconsequential ethics in which, instead of worrying about its causes, the mutiny can be read as an experimental space in which democratic politics occurred, rather than one in which people were striving for a 'successful' outcome. I argue that, while there is much to be admired in Gandhi's reading of these events, she discounts the maritime nature of the RIN mutiny. In other words, she fails to acknowledge that travelling to different international locations allowed the sailors to learn about democracy and other ideas, which in turn influenced their beliefs about what the future of India, and the RIN, should look like. As a result, I argue for the need to explore in greater depth the important connections that exist between anti‐colonialism, democratic politics and the naval/maritime experience.