Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

by Disha Karnad Jani In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Stephen Legg about his new book, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities (University of Georgia Press, 2025). In the book, Legg provides a study of Indian anti-colonialism in the decades before Independence that foregrounds the spatially-mediated and bottom-up politics of old and New Delhi’s poor, its middle classes, and the prominent anti-c…