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STEPHEN LEGG is a professor of historical geography at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities; Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India; and Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Historical Geography and was the 2024 chair of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) International Conference. He lives in Nottingham, UK.
A work of the highest caliber, intellectually and presentationally, with a fascinating––and in many ways timely and instructive––subject matter handled with verve, insight, and sensitivity. Stephen Legg’s thoroughly geographical study of an anticolonial city renders the volume highly distinctive, a pioneering contribution that will attract favorable attention in many circles of academe and beyond. -- Christopher Philo * author of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination * This work succeeds in foregrounding the spatiality of nationalist politics, a perspective that has largely been missing in most works on nationalist mobilization. Legg treats the city, in particular Delhi, not as backdrop but as an active constitutive element of anticolonialist action. -- Janaki Nair, professor (retired), Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi
