Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940: Contagions of Feeling (1st ed. 2015) (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)

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Synopsis
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.
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2015

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9781137520722
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9781137520715
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Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
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Springer
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English
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History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Medicine
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