Confronting the Body
The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
Published on 1. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-1-84331-033-4 (ISBN)
Description
The editors bring together some of the best new scholarship on physicality in modern India in a single volume and provide a balance of materials from colonial and post-colonial India. Included are new writings by established and upcoming writers in the social sciences and humanities, all based on original research.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84331-033-4 (9781843310334)
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Persons
James H. Mills is Lecturer in Modern History at Strathclyde University, Glasgow.
Satadru Sen is Assistant Professor of South Asian history at Washington University in St Louis.
Satadru Sen is Assistant Professor of South Asian history at Washington University in St Louis.
Content
Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: James H Mills and Satadru Sen; 1. Body, Text, Nation: Writing the Physically Fit Body in Post-Colonial India; 2. 'A Parcel of Dummies'? Sport and the Body in Indian History; 3. Schools, Athletes and Confrontation: The Student Body in Colonial India, Satadru Sen; 4. Body as Target, Violence as Treatment: Psychiatric Regimes in Colonial and Post-Colonial India; 5. The Lotah Emeutes of 1855: Caste, Religion and Prisons in North India in the Early Nineteenth Century; 6. The Body at Work: Colonial Art Education and the Figure of the 'Native Craftsman'; 7. Making a Dravidian Hero: The Body and Identity Politics in the Dravidian Movement; 8. Describing the Body: The Writing of Sex and Gender Identity for the Contemporary Bengali Woman; 9. A Perfect 10 - 'Modern and Indian': Representation of the Body in Beauty Pageants and the Visual Media in Contemporary India; 10. Demographic Rhetoric and Sexual Surveillance: Indian Middle-Class Advocates of Birth Control, 1902-1940s