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Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London (2023)
Book
Legg, S. (2023). Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009215329

Round Table Conference Geographies explores a major international conference in 1930s London which determined India's constitutional future in the British Empire. Pre-dating the decolonising conferences of the 1950s–60s, the Round Table Conference la... Read More about Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London.

Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India (2014)
Book
Legg, S. (2014). Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822376170

fficially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of s... Read More about Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India.