Carceral Pluralities

Abstract The conclusion reiterates the importance of spatial history as an analytic for understanding the modern prison by revisiting the key themes of the book—architecture, labor, resistance, narration, and representation. Two representations of the colonial prison are considered—a 1911 photograph of the prison in Rampur and a popular print titled “Separation of Mr. B. K. Dutt from S. Bhagat Singh” (c.1929–31). Not only do these two works gesture to the range and breadth of carceral imagery that existed during the colonial period, but their consideration emphasizes how, through the study of space, the prison’s plurality of forms becomes apparent.