Confronting the Body - The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A key South Asian Studies title that brings together some of the best new writing on physicality in colonial India. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Autori: James H. Sen Mills
• Con la collaborazione di: James Mills (Editore), James H. Mills (Editore), Mills James H. (Editore), Satadru Sen (Editore), Sen Satadru (Editore)
• Editore: Anthem Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9781843310334
• ISBN: 978-1-84331-033-4
• Pagine: 212
• Serie: Anthem South Asian Studies
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / General, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, India, South East Asia, Mind, Body, Spirit, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India