Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940 : Contagions of Feeling.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (153 pages)
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies .
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies .
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.