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Cultural politics of hygiene in India, 1890-1940: (Record no. 68734)

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ISBN 9781137520715 (hardback)
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Classification number 304.270 954
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Personal name Srirupa Prasad
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Title Cultural politics of hygiene in India, 1890-1940:
Sub Title contagions of feeling/
Statement of responsibility, etc by Srirupa Prasad
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Place of publication Newyork:
Name of publisher Palgrave Macmillan,
Year of publication 2015.
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Number of Pages x, 142 pages ;
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Series statement Cambridge imperial & post-colonial studies series
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Summary, etc "Can there be an affective history of hygiene? Is it possible to read into the narrative of modern hygiene active and animated tropes of emotion, affect, and feeling? New microbes, novel pandemics, and their global movements that have forcefully reinstated the efficacy of hygiene have also reinvigorated global academic interest in the genealogies of hygienic practices. Cultural Politics of Hygiene in Bengal/India, 1890-1940 analyzes one such genealogy of hygiene in the context of late colonial Bengal. It argues that the meaning and role of hygiene in India were catalyzed on the crossroads of colonial governance, anticolonial struggles, cultural nationalism, and early 20th century social feminism. Affect, feeling, and sentiment were, however, no less important in the production of knowledge and practices of hygiene. Hygiene as a modern discourse, as shown in this book, not only produced emotions, sentiments, and feelings but was also constituted through them"--
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Topical Term Hygiene India
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Topical Term Communicable Diseases India
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Topical Term Public Health India
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Topical Term Social Conditions 19th Century
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Topical Term Social Conditions 20th Centuary
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Topical Term Social Sciences
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        Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Reference 18.11.2017 6279.22 304.270 954 SRI/C 086151 18.11.2017 Reference