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Cover image for book Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940

Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940

Contagions of Feeling
By:Srirupa Prasad
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781349557738
eText ISBN:9781137520722
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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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.