Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940

Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 9781137520722
ISBN-13 : 1137520728
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Book Synopsis Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940 by : Srirupa Prasad

Download or read book Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940 written by Srirupa Prasad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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