Indian Sex Life : : Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought / / Durba Mitra.
During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals—philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics—deployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society. In Indian Sex Life, Durba Mitra shows ho...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 15 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Excess, a History
- 1. Origins: Philology and the Study of Indian Sex Life
- 2. Repetition: Law and the Sociology of Deviant Female Sexuality
- 3. Circularity: Forensics, Abortion, and the Evidence of Deviant Female Sexuality
- 4. Evolution: Ethnology and the Primitivity of Deviant Female Sexuality
- 5. Veracity: Life Stories and the Revelation of Social Life
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Image Credits
- Index
- A Note on the Type