| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Writing Embodied Histories-Humans and Non-humans in Nature, Science, and Imperialism -- Historicizing Humanitarianism in Colonial India -- The Politics of Care: Veterinarians and Humanitarians -- Meat: To Eat or Not to Eat? -- The Anomaly of 'Animal': Unburdening the Beast -- Conclusion: Liminal Boundaries, Colonial Ironies |
| Summary |
This work disentangles complex discourses around humanitarianism to understand the nature of British colonialism in India. It contends that the colonial project of animal protection in late nineteenth-century Bengal mirrored an irony. Emerging notions of public health and debates on cruelty against animals exposed the disjunction between the claims of a benevolent Empire and a powerful imperial reality where the state constantly sought to discipline its subjects-both human and nonhuman. Centred around stories of animals as diseased, eaten, and overworked, the book shows how such contests over appropriate measures for controlling animals became part of wider discussions surrounding environmental ethics, diet, sanitation, and the politics of race and class |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed June 29, 2022) |
| Subject |
Animal welfare -- India -- Bengal -- History
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Animals as carriers of disease -- India -- History
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Humanitarianism -- India -- Bengal -- History
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Animal welfare
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Animals as carriers of disease
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Humanitarianism
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| SUBJECT |
Bengal (India) -- History -- 19th century
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Bengal (India) -- History -- 20th century
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India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
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| Subject |
India
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India -- Bengal
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190993948 |
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0190993944 |
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