Confronting the body : the politics of physicality in colonial and post-colonial India /
Mills, James H.,1970-
Sen, Satadru.
Conference "Representing the Body in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia"(2001 :Purdue University)
London : Anthem Press,
c2004.
Based partly on the Conference "Representing the Body in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia", held at Purdue University, Indiana, Feb. 2001.
Includes bibliographical references.
Body, text, nation: writing the physically fit body in post-colonial India / Joseph S. Alter -- "A parcel of dummies?" sport and the body in Indian history / Paul Dimeo -- Schools, athletes and confrontation: the student body in colonial India / Satadru Sen -- Body as target, violence as treatment: psychiatric regimes in colonial and post-colonial India / James H. Mills -- The Lotah emeutes of 1855: caste, religion and prisons in North India in the early nineteenth century / Anand A. Yang -- The body at work: colonial art education and the figure of the "native craftsman" / Deepali Dewan -- Making a Dravidian hero: the body and identity politics in the Dravidian movement / Nimmi Rangaswamy -- Describing the body: the writing of sex and gender identity for the contemporary Bengali woman / Srimati Basu -- A perfect 10 -- "modern and Indian": representations of the body in beauty pageants and the visual media in contemporary India /Shoma Munshi -- Demographic rhetoric and sexual surveillance: Indian middle-class advocates of birth control, 1902-1940s / Sanjam Ahluwalia.
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