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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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781137520715
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215794160
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Author
Srirupa Prasad
Publication Name
Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940: Contagions of Feeling