Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India
11 Columbia Studies in International and Global History

Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India

By
Jessica Namakkal
Jessica Namakkal
2021 • 328 pages

After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization.

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Columbia Studies in International and Global History

Columbia Studies in International and Global History is a 11-book series with 11 released primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Patrick Manning, Cemil Aydin, and Steven Bryan.

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