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Sex, Law and the Politics of Age

By: Ishita Pande

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Sex, Law and the Politics of Age

By: Ishita Pande

An innovative study of the establishment of 'age' as a political category in late colonial India.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108489745

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9781108489744

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Symptoms of Empire

By: Ishita Pande

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Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Symptoms of Empire

By: Ishita Pande

This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of diseases - the author develops and challenges a burgeoning literature on colonial medicine, moving beyond discussions of state medicine and the control of epidemics to everyday life, to show how medicine was a fundamental ideology of empire. Related to this point, and engaging with postcolonial histories of biopower and modernity, the book highlights the use of this racially grounded medicine in the formulation of modern selves and subjectivities in late colonial India. In tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, the book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism. Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal brings together the study of modern South Asia, race theory, colonialism and empire and the history of medicine. It highlights the powerful role played by the idea of ‘pathology’ in the rationalization of imperial liberalism and the subsequent projects of modernity embraced by native experts in Bengal in the ‘long’ nineteenth century.

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542

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Routledge

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1136972404

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9781136972409

A History of Modern India

By: Ishita Banerjee-Dube

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A History of Modern India

By: Ishita Banerjee-Dube

This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste, and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the Indian nation.

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522

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Cambridge University Press

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1316165175

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9781316165171

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Symptoms of Empire

By: Ishita Pande

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268

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1136972412

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9781136972416

Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age

Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937

By: Ishita Pande

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Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937

By: Ishita Pande

Ishita Pande's innovative study provides a dual biography of India's path-breaking Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and of 'age' itself as a key category of identity for upholding the rule of law, and for governing intimate life in late colonial India. Through a reading of legislative assembly debates, legal cases, government reports, propaganda literature, Hindi novels and sexological tracts, Pande tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age. By tracing the history of age in colonial India she illuminates the role of law in sculpting modern subjects, demonstrating how seemingly natural age-based exclusions and understandings of legal minority became the alibi for other political exclusions and the minoritization of entire communities in colonial India. In doing so, Pande highlights how childhood as a political category was fundamental not just to ideas of sexual norms and domestic life, but also to the conceptualisation of citizenship and India as a nation in this formative period.

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110880263X

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9781108802635

Book's by Ishita Pande

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

A History of Modern India

A History of Modern India

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age

Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age

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