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Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (2025)
Book
Legg, S. (2025). Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities. University of Georgia

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities provides a spatial analysis of the anticolonial governmentalities that emerged in the colonial capital of British India. Reading across imperial and nationalist archives, newspapers, memoirs,... Read More about Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities.

Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2025). Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction. Journal of Historical Geography, 87, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.09.005

This paper introduces a virtual special issue that explores how monuments have been contested in the past and how they continue to be so in the present. A survey of papers published in this journal from the 1990s to the early-2000s demonstrates an on... Read More about Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction.

Mapping, geography (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2025). Mapping, geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 50(1), Article e12707. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12707

This Themed Intervention consists of short papers written by nine plenary speakers at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers plus a paper by the Society's Cartographic Collections Manage... Read More about Mapping, geography.

How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2024). How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war. Journal of Historical Geography, 84, 154-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.05.007

In this 'Historical Geography at Large' review I recount my participation in an August 2023 summer school led by Professor Alan Lester at the University of Sussex, entitled 'How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war'. The w... Read More about How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war.

Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2024). Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference. Urban History, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926824000439

This survey reflects on the intersections of global and urban history through brief reflections on the Round Table Conference which took place over three sessions in London between 1930 and 1932. Uniting Indian representatives and the British governm... Read More about Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference.

Who were the Early Globalisers? The Historical Geographies of India in Interwar London (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2024). Who were the Early Globalisers? The Historical Geographies of India in Interwar London. Geography Review, 37(4), 37-39

This article explores globalisation’s historical geographies, using the example of visiting Indians in 1930s London to decolonise our presumptions about who helped craft the globe.

Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home (2023)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2023). Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(6), 960–977. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231174453

This article explores a relatively rare archival account of female subjectivity, experience, mobility, and voice within a carceral institution in late-colonial Delhi. The capital’s “Rescue Home” was created to house women and girls removed from the c... Read More about Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home.

Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk). (2023)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2023). Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk). Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 44(2), 375-377. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12489

In this exceptional piece of historical scholarship, Rotem Geva walks the reader through a harrowing Indian landscape. The five substantive chapters take us from the dreams about, and campaigns for, independence in India’s colonial capital, to the vi... Read More about Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk)..

Communal Geographies: An Introduction (2023)
Journal Article
Gupta, C., & Legg, S. (2023). Communal Geographies: An Introduction. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 46(6), 1168-1183. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2303215

This paper introduces a special section comprising eight papers that delve into complex geographies of communal identities in modern South Asia. It situates these papers at a significant intersection of spatial histories and historical geographies of... Read More about Communal Geographies: An Introduction.

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.

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, M., Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Thorpe, B. (2021). Introduction. In S. Legg, M. Heffernan, J. Hodder, & B. Thorpe (Eds.), Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World. Bloomsbury

Toward an Historical Geography of International Conferencing (2021)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, M., Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Thorpe, B. (2021). Toward an Historical Geography of International Conferencing. In S. Legg, M. Heffernan, J. Hodder, & B. Thorpe (Eds.), Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World. Bloomsbury

The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race (2020)
Journal Article
Hodder, J., Heffernan, M., & Legg, S. (2021). The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race. Journal of Historical Geography, 71, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2020.06.008

© 2020 The Authors This paper argues that more explicitly geographical methodologies are required to study twentieth-century internationalism, which invite different conversations between international historians and historical geographers. We show h... Read More about The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race.

Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932 (2020)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2020). Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932. Humanity, 11(1), 32-53. https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2020.0006

This paper argues that we can view the Round Table Conference (three sittings between 1930-32) as an international organisation that re-assembled the technology of the colonial Indian state. The conference is traditionally associated with colonial an... Read More about Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932.

Political lives at sea: working and socialising to and from the India Round Table Conference in London, 1930–1932 (2020)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2020). Political lives at sea: working and socialising to and from the India Round Table Conference in London, 1930–1932. Journal of Historical Geography, 68, 21-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2019.12.005

This paper presents new ways of thinking about both the spatial relationality of a political event, and a mobile perspective on interwar imperialism, anti-colonialism and Indian nationalism. Between 1930 and 1932 over one hundred delegates from India... Read More about Political lives at sea: working and socialising to and from the India Round Table Conference in London, 1930–1932.

‘No place for hate’: community-led research and the geographies of Nottingham citizens’ hate crime commission (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S., & Citizens, N. (2021). ‘No place for hate’: community-led research and the geographies of Nottingham citizens’ hate crime commission. Social and Cultural Geography, 22(8), 1164-1186. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2019.1697460

© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper recounts the Hate Crime Commission carried out in 2014 by Nottingham Citizens, a charity and community organiser. It provides an insider account of... Read More about ‘No place for hate’: community-led research and the geographies of Nottingham citizens’ hate crime commission.

“Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932 (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2019). “Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(3), 774-792. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1630247

Between 1930-1932 the three sessions of the Round Table Conference in London drew over 70 Indian delegates to the city, for up to three months, to debate India's constitutional future within the British Empire. This paper argues that the "atmosphere"... Read More about “Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932.

A pre-partitioned city? Anti-colonial and communal mohallas in interwar Delhi (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2019). A pre-partitioned city? Anti-colonial and communal mohallas in interwar Delhi. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(1), 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1554472

This paper explores the mohallas of Delhi, sub-communities within the city, and asks whether Delhi was pre-partitioning before August 1947. It suggests that the mohalla was a site of political mobilisation that was systematically used by Congress fro... Read More about A pre-partitioned city? Anti-colonial and communal mohallas in interwar Delhi.

Spaces before partition: an Introduction (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S., & Gould, W. (2019). Spaces before partition: an Introduction. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(1), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1554489

This introduction frames a selection of papers that encourage a richer spatial understanding of the years before the partition of India. The papers respond to two types of question. One type is spatial (at what scale to do we approach partition? Thro... Read More about Spaces before partition: an Introduction.