Spatialising Quit India’s Political Underground
Abstract
This review essay examines Stephen Legg’s Spaces of Anticolonialism, focusing specifically on the book’s engagement with the Political Underground. Before discussing the book’s central contributions, it begins by laying out conceptual considerations for what it introduces as the Political Underground. Legg’s spatialisation of the Political Underground and his conceptualisation of Quit India’s underground movement as both subject and agent of anticolonial governmentalities are then presented as the book’s central contributions. The discussion also considers Legg’s methodological strategies for retrieving Delhi’s anticolonial archive, before closing with reflections on style, conceptual richness, and the book’s potential to inspire further research on underground and anticolonial geographies in India and beyond.
Fields of Study & Subjects
South Asian Studies and Conflicts
South Asian Cinema and Culture
South Asian Studies and Diaspora
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Scottish Geographical Journal
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Volume
- 142
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 237–241
- Publication date
- 29 January 2026
- Language
- EN