Confronting the body : the politics of physicality in colonial and post-colonial India /: the politics of physicality in colonial and post-colonial India. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by James H Mills and Satadru Sen.
• Other Names: Mills, James H, 1970-; Sen, Satadru; Conference "Representing the Body in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia"
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 202 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.4/613; Human body -- Social aspects -- India; Human body -- Political aspects -- India; Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- India; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Human body -- Political aspects; Human body -- Social aspects; Human body -- Symbolic aspects; Menselijk lichaam; Identiteit; Koloniale periode; Postkolonialisme; India; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781843313656; 1843313650; 9780857287502; 0857287508
• Related ISBNs: 1843310325; 9781843310327; 1843310333; 9781843310334
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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