'Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, Geographies of Anticolonialism takes a spatial approach to the study of anticolonialism. Through an exploration of a cluster of little-known but fascinating figures situated in the French South Indian enclave of Pondicherry - poet Subramania Bharati, nationalist mobilizer V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, international anarchist M. P. T. Acharya and spiritual nationalist Aurobindo Ghosh - Andrew Davies makes a major contribution to the study of Indian freedom struggle as well as to global anticolonial thought.'
A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor of History, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India
'In this wide-ranging, engagingly written and provocative historical geography of anticolonialism, Davies threads together analyses of sea networks, land hubs, politico-spiritual utopias and anarchist internationalism, which return to but are not confined within South India. Anticolonialism here broadens the scope of the de-colonial and adds ideological and material politics to the postcolonial, brilliantly contesting the territorial and epistemological boundaries of colonial geography.'
Stephen Legg, Professor of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK
