S.Harikrishnan is a postdoctoral researcher at Dublin City University, where he completed his PhD in political science. He holds an MA in International Political Economy from King's College London and an MA in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Hari's research interests include the politics of space, modernity, religion, and political culture. His research has been published in Social History, Brill’s Handbook of Hinduism in Europe, and TripleC, and his bylines have appeared on The News Minute, Interactions, Newslaundry, and Kafila. Hari is also a photographer whose works have been exhibited in India, South Africa, and Ireland. He is a founding editor of Ala, a monthly online publication on Kerala. This is his first monograph.

• Foreword by Dilip Menon. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Studying Space: Public Sphere and the Social Space 3. Making “Public”: Spatiality in Pre-modern to Early Modern Kerala 4. Moving “Out”: Nationalism, Socialism, and New Social Spaces 5. State, Capital, and the Struggle for Control 6. Capitalism, Communalism, and Social Spaces 7. Spatial Contests: Hegemony and Resistance

“This book weaves a range of microdata from a wide-ranging but coherent set of historical and contemporary sources to build a careful narrative of public spaces and a fresh take on theories of autogestion. Ethnographic material on contemporary Kerala's impeccably grassroots organising stands in contrast to the many studies of Kerala's entrenched regime of rival parties, and insists upon the centrality of the social, the everyday, the experiential and embodied” — Professor Caroline Osella, Research Associate, University of Sussex andformer Reader in Anthropology at SOAS, London

S.Harikrishnan is a postdoctoral researcher at Dublin City University, where he completed his PhD in political science. He holds an MA in International Political Economy from King's College London and an MA in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Hari's research interests include the politics of space, modernity, religion, and political culture. His research has been published in Social History, Brill’s Handbook of Hinduism in Europe, and TripleC, and his bylines have appeared on The News Minute, Interactions, Newslaundry, and Kafila. Hari is also a photographer whose works have been exhibited in India, South Africa, and Ireland. He is a founding editor of Ala, a monthly online publication on Kerala. This is his first monograph.

• Foreword by Dilip Menon. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Studying Space: Public Sphere and the Social Space 3. Making “Public”: Spatiality in Pre-modern to Early Modern Kerala 4. Moving “Out”: Nationalism, Socialism, and New Social Spaces 5. State, Capital, and the Struggle for Control 6. Capitalism, Communalism, and Social Spaces 7. Spatial Contests: Hegemony and Resistance

“This book weaves a range of microdata from a wide-ranging but coherent set of historical and contemporary sources to build a careful narrative of public spaces and a fresh take on theories of autogestion. Ethnographic material on contemporary Kerala's impeccably grassroots organising stands in contrast to the many studies of Kerala's entrenched regime of rival parties, and insists upon the centrality of the social, the everyday, the experiential and embodied” — Professor Caroline Osella, Research Associate, University of Sussex andformer Reader in Anthropology at SOAS, London

S.Harikrishnan is a postdoctoral researcher at Dublin City University, where he completed his PhD in political science. He holds an MA in International Political Economy from King's College London and an MA in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Hari's research interests include the politics of space, modernity, religion, and political culture. His research has been published in Social History, Brill’s Handbook of Hinduism in Europe, and TripleC, and his bylines have appeared on The News Minute, Interactions, Newslaundry, and Kafila. Hari is also a photographer whose works have been exhibited in India, South Africa, and Ireland. He is a founding editor of Ala, a monthly online publication on Kerala. This is his first monograph.

• Foreword by Dilip Menon. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Studying Space: Public Sphere and the Social Space 3. Making “Public”: Spatiality in Pre-modern to Early Modern Kerala 4. Moving “Out”: Nationalism, Socialism, and New Social Spaces 5. State, Capital, and the Struggle for Control 6. Capitalism, Communalism, and Social Spaces 7. Spatial Contests: Hegemony and Resistance

“This book weaves a range of microdata from a wide-ranging but coherent set of historical and contemporary sources to build a careful narrative of public spaces and a fresh take on theories of autogestion. Ethnographic material on contemporary Kerala's impeccably grassroots organising stands in contrast to the many studies of Kerala's entrenched regime of rival parties, and insists upon the centrality of the social, the everyday, the experiential and embodied” — Professor Caroline Osella, Research Associate, University of Sussex andformer Reader in Anthropology at SOAS, London