Confronting the Body : The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India

Mills, James H. (EDT); Sen, Satadru (EDT); CONFERENCE REPRESENTING THE BODY IN COL (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1843310325 / ISBN 13: 9781843310327

Editore: Anthem Press, 2004

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• Titolo: Confronting the Body : The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
• Editore: Anthem Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1843310325
• ISBN 13: 9781843310327
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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The editors bring together some of the best new scholarship on physicality in modern India in a single volume and provide a balance of materials from colonial and post-colonial India. Included are new writings by established and upcoming writers in the social sciences and humanities, all based on original research.

Informazioni sugli autori

James H. Mills is Lecturer in Modern History at Strathclyde University, Glasgow.

Satadru Sen is Assistant Professor of South Asian history at Washington University in St Louis.

Dr Satadru Sen is Assistant Professor of South Asian history at Washington University in St Louis. He is the author of Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Migrant Races, Empire, Identity and KS Ranjitsinhji (Manchester University Press, 2004).      James H Mills is Lecturer in Modern History at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. His work addresses the social history of medicine, drugs and sport in South Asia. He is the author of Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition 1800–1928 (OUP, 2003), Madness, Cunnabis and Colonialism: The ‘Native-Only ‘ Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857–1900 (Macmillan, 2000) and Editor of Subaltern Sports: Politics and Sport in South Asia (Anthem, 2005).