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Cultural politics of hygiene in India, 1890-1940 : contagions of feeling

Prasad, Srirupa, 1971-

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\"Can there be an affective history of hygiene? Is it possible to read into the narrative of modern hygiene active and animated tropes of emotion, affect, and feeling? New microbes, novel pandemics, and their global movements that have forcefully reinstated the efficacy of hygiene have also reinvigorated global academic interest in the genealogies of hygienic practices. Cultural Politics of Hygiene in Bengal/India, 1890-1940 analyzes one such genealogy of hygiene in the context of late colonial Bengal. It argues that the meaning and role of hygiene in India were catalyzed on the crossroads of colonial governance, anticolonial struggles, cultural nationalism, and early 20th century social feminism. Affect, feeling, and sentiment were, however, no less important in the production of knowledge and practices of hygiene. Hygiene as a modern discourse, as shown in this book, not only produced emotions, sentiments, and feelings but was also constituted through them\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Hygiene Social aspects India Bengal History. / Hygiene Political aspects India Bengal History. / Human body Social aspects India Bengal History. / Communicable diseases Social aspects India Bengal History. / Affect (psychology) Social aspects India Bengal History. / Public health India Bengal History. / HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. / HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century. / HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. / HISTORY / Social History. / MEDICAL / Public Health. / Bengal (India) Social conditions 19th century. / Bengal (India) Social conditions 20th century. / Bengal (India) Colonial influence. / Bengal (India) Politics and government.
• ISBN: 9781137520715, 113752071X

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