Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India Namakkal Jessica
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India Namakkal Jessica After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the…
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Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India Namakkal Jessica
After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. Once decolonization took hold across the subcontinent, Western-led ashrams and utopian communities remained in and around the former French territory of Pondicherry--most notably the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the Auroville experimental township, which continue to thrive and draw tourists today.Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization. It was not until 1962 that France fully relinquished control.
Through the experience of the French territories, Jessica Namakkal recasts the relationships among colonization, settlement, postcolonial sovereignty, utopianism, and liberation, considering questions of borders, exile,
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