Communal Geographies Before and Beyond Partition in South Asia

Stephen Legg is Professor of History Geography at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on colonial India in the context of British imperialism and interwar internationalism. His publications include Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (2007); Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities and Interwar India (2014); Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London (2023); and Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (2025).

William Gould is Professor of Indian History at the University of Leeds. He specialises in mid-20th century histories of citizenship in South Asia. His publications including Hindu Nationalism and the Language of Politics in Late Colonial India (2004); Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia (2012); and Boundaries of Belonging: Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan (2018).

Charu Gupta is Senior Professor of History at the University of Delhi. She is the author of Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India (2001); The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print (2016); and Hindi Hindu Histories: Caste, Ayurveda, Travel, and Communism in Early-Twentieth-Century India (2024).