Drawing upon the theories and methodologies of governmentality as presented in Michel Foucault's translated lecture courses, Spaces of Colonialism provides an analysis of the attempts made by the Government of India to secure and order Delhi, the capital of the Raj from 1911 to 1947. Following the path from New Delhi to Old Delhi, this book contains a mass of new empirical data that illustrates how these seemingly separate cities were united by shared political rationalities and landscapes of control.
Beginning with a critical analysis of the colonial governmentality literature and a situation of Delhi in the history of India, this text examines the residential landscape of New Delhi, the policing of the new and old cities, and the biopolitical needs and improvements that arose in the urban landscape. The formative role of problematizations and resistance in driving these changes is stressed throughout and provides a historic basis for a contemporary critique of colonial governmentality. This ground-breaking text is the first comparative history of New and Old Delhi, making it an essential resource for scholars looking to stay ahead in a number of fields, including cultural theory, colonial history, urbanism, and post-colonial studies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface. Abbreviations.
Archival references.
1. Imperial Delhi.
1. 1 New Delhi: Showcase of Sovereignty.
1. 2 Colonial Governmentality.
2. Residential and Racial Segregation: a Spatial Archaeology.
2. 1 The Spatial Administration of Precedence.
2. 2 The Spatial Dissolution of Order.
3. Disciplining Delhi.
3. 1 New Delhi: Policing the Heart of Empire.
3. 2 Anti-colonial nationalism and urban order.
3. 3 "Religious Nationalism" and Urban Diagrams.
4. Biopolitics and the Urban Environment.
4. 1 Population expansion and urban disorder.
4. 2 Congestion relief, calculation, and the "intensity map".
4. 3 The Western Extension, protest, and failed relief.
4. 4 Slum clearance and the strictures of imperial finance.
5. Conclusions: within and beyond the city.
5. 1 Interlinked landscapes of ordering.
5. 2 Beyond colonial Delhi.
Notes.
References.
Index
