Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: James H Mills and Satadru Sen; 1. Body, Text, Nation: Writing the Physically Fit Body in Post-Colonial India; 2. 'A Parcel of Dummies'? Sport and the Body in Indian History; 3. Schools, Athletes and Confrontation: The Student Body in Colonial India, Satadru Sen; 4. Body as Target, Violence as Treatment: Psychiatric Regimes in Colonial and Post-Colonial India; 5. The Lotah Emeutes of 1855: Caste, Religion and Prisons in North India in the Early Nineteenth Century; 6. The Body at Work: Colonial Art Education and the Figure of the 'Native Craftsman'; 7. Making a Dravidian Hero: The Body and Identity Politics in the Dravidian Movement; 8. Describing the Body: The Writing of Sex and Gender Identity for the Contemporary Bengali Woman; 9. A Perfect 10 - 'Modern and Indian': Representation of the Body in Beauty Pageants and the Visual Media in Contemporary India; 10. Demographic Rhetoric and Sexual Surveillance: Indian Middle-Class Advocates of Birth Control, 1902-1940s

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A fascinating study on the politics of the body and the way in which it has been manipulated in the colonial and postcolonial era.

About the Author

James H. Mills is Lecturer in Modern History at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Satadru Sen is Assistant Professor of South Asian history at Washington University in St Louis.