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Confronting the body : the politics of physicality in colonial and post-colonial India
- Title
- Confronting the body : the politics of physicality in colonial and post-colonial India / edited by James H. Mills and Satadru Sen.
- Publication
- London : Anthem Press, 2004.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 202 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Anthem South Asian studies
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-15).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Body, text, nation: writing the physically fit body in post-colonial India / Joseph S. Alter -- "A parcel of dummies?" sport and the body in Indian history / Paul Dimeo -- Schools, athletes and confrontation: the student body in colonial India / Satadru Sen -- Body as target, violence as treatment: psychiatric regimes in colonial and post-colonial India / James H. Mills -- The Lotah emeutes of 1855: caste, religion and prisons in North India in the early nineteenth century / Anand A. Yang -- The body at work: colonial art education and the figure of the "native craftsman" / Deepali Dewan -- Making a Dravidian hero: the body and identity politics in the Dravidian movement / Nimmi Rangaswamy -- Describing the body: the writing of sex and gender identity for the contemporary Bengali woman / Srimati Basu -- A perfect 10 - "modern and Indian": representations of the body in beauty pageants and the visual media in contemporary India /Shoma Munshi -- Demographic rhetoric and sexual surveillance: Indian middle-class advocates of birth control, 1902-1940s / Sanjam Ahluwalia.
- Call Number
- JFE 04-3834
- ISBN
- 1843310325
- 1843310333 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 49873708
- Title
- Confronting the body : the politics of physicality in colonial and post-colonial India / edited by James H. Mills and Satadru Sen.
- Imprint
- London : Anthem Press, 2004.
- Series
- Anthem South Asian studies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-15).
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Mills, James H., 1970-Sen, Satadru.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 04-3834