Cultural politics of hygiene in India, 1890-1940 : contagions of feeling / Srirupa Prasad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prasad, Srirupa, 1971- author.

Series:

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hygiene--Social aspects--India--Bengal--History.

Hygiene.

Hygiene--Political aspects--India--Bengal--History.

Human body--Social aspects--India--Bengal--History.

Human body.

Communicable diseases--Social aspects--India--Bengal--History.

Communicable diseases.

Affect (Psychology)--Social aspects--India--Bengal--History.

Affect (Psychology).

Public health--India--Bengal--History.

Public health.

History.

Social aspects.

Communicable diseases--Social aspects.

Human body--Social aspects.

Hygiene--Social aspects.

Bengal (India)--Social conditions--19th century.

Bengal (India).

Bengal (India)--Social conditions--20th century.

Bengal (India)--Colonial influence.

Bengal (India)--Politics and government.

Hygiene--history.

India.

India--Bengal.

Medical Subjects:

Hygiene--history.

India.

Physical Description:

x, 142 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Introduction: Contagion and Cultural Politics of Hygiene

Hygiene, Colonialism, and Affective Histories

Objects, Affect, and Hygiene

Methods and Sources

Outline of Chapters

Alimentary Anxieties : Affect in Food and Hunger

Histories of Food and the Body

Food Adulteration, Embodiment and the Politics of Anxiety

Famine's Bodies

Body, Hygiene, and Affective Politics of Gandhi's Swaraj

Body, Affect, and Gandhi

Gandhi's Fasts

Race and Gandhi's Politics of Hygiene

Medicine as Contagion

Imagining the Social Body : Competing Moralities of Care and Contagion

Locating Women's Writings on Care in Early 20th Century India

Memorable Objects : Childhood, Memory, and Care in Shukhalata Rao's Writings

Memorable Spaces : Suffering and Education of Care in Priyabala Gupta's Memoir

Traveling Memories : Wandering and Care in Purnasashi Debi's Autobiography

Affective Remedies : Advertisements and Cultural Politics of Hygiene

Enchantments of Empire and Nation

Advertising, Consumer Culture, and Empire

Advertisements and Pluralist Medical Marketplace

Advertising Beauty, Womanhood, and Domesticity

Contagion of Advertisements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137520715

113752071X

OCLC:

909320504