Title Cultural politics of hygiene in India, 1890-1940 : contagions of feeling / Srirupa Prasad (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. Contents Table of Contents -- Introduction: Contagion and Cultural Politics of Hygiene -- 1. Alimentary Anxieties: Affect in Food and Hunger -- 2. Body, Hygiene, and Affective Politics of Gandhi's Swaraj -- 3. Imagining the Social Body: Competing Moralities of Care and Contagion -- 4. Affective Remedies: Advertisements and Cultural Politics of Hygiene 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Hygiene -- Social aspects -- India -- Bengal -- History Hygiene -- Political aspects -- India -- Bengal -- History Human body -- Social aspects -- India -- Bengal -- History Communicable diseases -- Social aspects -- India -- Bengal -- History Affect (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- India -- Bengal -- History Public health -- India -- Bengal -- History Hygiene -- history History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Social & cultural history. Public health & preventive medicine. Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900. 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000. HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. HISTORY -- Social History. MEDICAL -- Public Health. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference. MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine. Social conditions Public health Politics and government Hygiene -- Social aspects Human body -- Social aspects Communicable diseases -- Social aspects Colonial influence SUBJECT Bengal (India) -- Social conditions -- 19th century Bengal (India) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Bengal (India) -- Colonial influence Bengal (India) -- Politics and government India Subject India -- Bengal Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137520722 1137520728 1349557730 9781349557738 9781137520715 113752071X

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