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Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
Hardback
Main Details
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Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Durba Mitra
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:302 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 156 |
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| Category/Genre | Asian and Middle Eastern history |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691196343
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| Classifications | Dewey:306.70820954 |
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| Audience | | General | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
15 b/w illus.
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
7 January 2020 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in India During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals-philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics-deployed id
Author Biography
Durba Mitra is assistant professor of studies in women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute.
Reviews"Honorable Mention for the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association" "Winner of the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies" "Mitra . . . . puts together archival material from diverse disciplines and overturns long-established notions and opens up new approaches for the global history of sexuality."---Soma Basu, The Hindu "A remarkable study."---Soutik Biswas, BBC News
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