Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890�1940: Contagions Of Feeling (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)

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Synopsis
This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses.
Copyright:
2015

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ISBN-13:
9781137520739
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Copyrighted By:
Srirupa Prasad
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Medicine, Sociology
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