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Author Legg, Stephen, author

Title Round Table Conference geographies : constituting Colonial India in interwar London / Stephen Legg
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 397 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover -- Reviews -- Round Table Conference Geographies -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Conversions, Spellings and Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Squaring Round Tables -- Conferences and Geographies -- Interwar Indian Constitutionalism -- Federation -- Delegations -- Archives and Framings -- Four Geographies of the RTC -- I Geographical Imaginations -- 2 Dominion and Dyarchy: The Absent Presences -- Dominion: The Temporality of Deferred Equality -- Anticipating Dominion Status -- The Ghost at the Round Tabble
Dyarchy: The Spatiality of Deferred Equality -- Dyarchy Appraised in London -- Dyarchy Principles at the RTC -- 3 Community: A Nation and a Table Divided -- The Reluctant Committee: Minority Interests at the First Session -- Pre-conferences: Mayfair and St James's -- The Dead End of Outside Happenings: Chequers -- 'Some Different Agency': The Minorities Committee -- 'Deep Sorrow and Deeper Humiliation': Minority Interests at the Second Session -- A Table Divided: The Minorities Committee -- II Conference Infrastructures -- 4 The Conference Method: Between Intention and Desire
Free, Equal and Effective? Setting the Conference Method -- Conference Machinery -- Unfree, Unequal but Effective? Tipping the Conference Method -- Advising and Influencing the Conference Machinery -- The Conference Method Under Attack -- A 'Complete Abandonment of the Conference Method'? -- 5 Staffing the Conference: Experts and Subaltern Diplomats -- Conference Experts -- Staffing the Secretariats -- The Secretariat-General -- Subaltern Diplomats -- Preparing and Policing the Palace -- Quantifying Clerical Labour -- Tracing Clerical Experience
6 The Speech Factory: Palace Materials and Communication Technologies -- The Palace -- Tables and Materials -- Communications -- Texts -- Press and Photography -- Sound and Vision -- III The Conference City -- 7 A Hospitable State? Official Socialising -- An Inhospitable City? -- An Aerodrome, An Indian House and an Imperial Institute -- A Corporate 'Home Away from Home': The Indian Social Centre -- Creating the Social Centre -- Making the Centre Social -- Assessing the Centre -- Socialising Beyond the Social Centre -- 8 Social London: Residing and Dining -- A Hospitable City?
Hotels, Clubs and Societies -- Clubland -- Meals, Speeches and General Whoopee -- Royal and Political Dining -- Indian Restaurants -- 9 At Homes: Political Hostessing and Homemaking -- Political Hostessing -- Ishbel Macdonald and 'collateral Kindness' -- At-homes -- Political Homemaking -- 4 St James's Square -- Kingsley Hall -- 88 Knightsbridge -- IV Representations -- 10 Petitions and Protests: The Page and the Street -- The Question of Representation -- Indian Petitions -- Petitioning Delhi -- Petitioning London -- The Communal Award -- London Protests -- In The Street -- On the Page
Summary "The Round Table Conference (RTC) met over three sessions in London between 1930-1932, its aim being to sketch out the next stage of India's constitutional advance within the British empire. Although it led directly to the Government of India Act of 1935, the conference is unanimously read as a failure. It failed to win over the Indian National Congress, it failed to reconcile communal demands, and it failed to entice the Princely States into immediate federation. As such, the RTC features in neither histories of imperial nor international conferences, nor is it acknowledged as a predecessor of the wave of decolonial conferences that began in the 1950s. This book argues that the RTC demands serious attention as a vital site of Indian and imperial politics in the interwar years. It explores four conference geographies, which balance an attention to imperial governmentality with evidence of "diplomatic subaltern" labour. The role of dominion, dyarchy and community are explored as "imaginary geographies". The conference method, staff and its palace locations expose conference "infrastructures". Spaces of official hospitality, socialising and domestic networking highlight London as a "conference city". And, finally, the "representational spaces" of the conference are read through petitions and protests, and the ways in which the conference was represented as a failure. The book concludes by asking who gained through this representation and by showing what we gain through exploring the conference as a teeming political, social and material space"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2023)
SUBJECT Indian Round Table Conference 1931 : London, England
Indian Round Table Conference fast
Subject HISTORY / Asia / South / General.
Politics and government
SUBJECT India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064943
Subject India
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022038086
ISBN 9781009215329
1009215329