Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890–1940

Abstract

This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses. "Cover" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "1 Introduction: Contagion and Cultural Politics of Hygiene" -- "Hygiene, colonialism, and affective histories" -- "Objects, affect, and hygiene" -- "Methods and sources" -- "Outline of chapters" -- "2 Alimentary Anxieties: Affect in Food and Hunger" -- "Histories of food and the body" -- "Food adulteration, embodiment, and the politics of anxiety" -- "Famineâ#x80;#x99;s bodies" -- "3 Body, Hygiene, and the Affective Politics of Gandhiâ#x80;#x99;s Swaraj" -- "Body, affect, and Gandhi" -- "Gandhiâ#x80;#x99;s fasts" -- "Race and Gandhiâ#x80;#x99;s politics of hygiene" -- "Medicine as contagion" -- "4 Imagining the Social Body: Competing Moralities of Care and Contagion" -- "Locating womenâ#x80;#x99;s writings on care in early twentieth-century India" -- "Memorable objects: Childhood, memory, and care in Shukhalata Raoâ#x80;#x99;s writings" -- "Memorable spaces: Suffering and education of care in Priyabala Guptaâ#x80;#x99;s memoir" -- "Traveling memories: Wandering and care in Purnashashi Debiâ#x80;#x99;s autobiography" -- "5 Affective Remedies: Advertisements and Cultural Politics of Hygiene" -- "Enchantments of empire and nation" -- "Advertising, consumer culture, and empire" -- "Advertisements and a pluralist medical marketplace" -- "Advertising beauty, womanhood, and domesticity" -- "Contagion of advertisements" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "References". TS - WorldCat T4 - Contagions of Feeling M4 - Citavi