Prasad, Srirupa.

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.

9781137520722


Electronic books.

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613.0954/14