Professor STEPHEN LEGG's Outputs (2)

An emerging India came alive in imperial London (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
Legg, S. (2022). An emerging India came alive in imperial London. New Delhi

The 90th anniversary of the Round Table Conference is an opportunity to revisit the landmark event that delivered provincial autonomy, a plan for legislative assemblies and a blueprint for the framework of the Constitution. Most of all, it gave us th... Read More about An emerging India came alive in imperial London.

Scalar, Spectacular and Subaltern Sovereignty: Colonial Autocracy and Democracy in Interwar India (2022)
Book Chapter
Legg, S. (2022). Scalar, Spectacular and Subaltern Sovereignty: Colonial Autocracy and Democracy in Interwar India. In Sovereignty: A Global Perspective (147-168). Oxford University Press

This chapter opens by introducing three recurring characteristics of contemporary debates regarding sovereignty in colonial India. The first concerns scale; the way in which the sovereignty of the Government of India was positioned between that of th... Read More about Scalar, Spectacular and Subaltern Sovereignty: Colonial Autocracy and Democracy in Interwar India.