TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitra,Durba
TI  - Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought 
SN  - 9780691196350
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abortion
KW  - Afsaneh Najmabadi
KW  - Ancient India
KW  - Banerjee
KW  - Caste
KW  - Cesare Lombroso
KW  - Chastity
KW  - Chatterjee
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Colonial India
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Concubinage
KW  - Contagious Diseases Acts
KW  - Courtesan
KW  - Crime
KW  - Criminal law
KW  - Culture of India
KW  - Deviance (sociology)
KW  - Endogamy
KW  - Episteme
KW  - Eroticism
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Eugenics
KW  - Exclusion
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Fallen woman
KW  - Forensic science
KW  - Gender role
KW  - Government of India
KW  - Harvard University
KW  - Herbert Spencer
KW  - Hermeneutics
KW  - Hindu law
KW  - Hindu
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Human female sexuality
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Inception
KW  - India Office
KW  - Indian Penal Code
KW  - Indology
KW  - Infanticide
KW  - Islamic marital practices
KW  - Knowledge economy
KW  - Kolkata
KW  - Literature
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Medical jurisprudence
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Monogamy
KW  - Morality
KW  - Narrative
KW  - National Archives of India
KW  - Objectivity (science)
KW  - Obscenity
KW  - Pathologica
KW  - Patriarchy
KW  - Perversion
KW  - Philology
KW  - Political philosophy
KW  - Pollution
KW  - Positivism
KW  - Procuring (prostitution)
KW  - Progressivism
KW  - Promiscuity
KW  - Prostitution in India
KW  - Prostitution law
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Publication
KW  - Puranas
KW  - Racial hierarchy
KW  - Sanskrit
KW  - Sex life
KW  - Sexology
KW  - Sexual desire
KW  - Sexual norm
KW  - Sexual violence
KW  - Shame
KW  - Short story
KW  - Social Practice
KW  - Social change
KW  - Social exclusion
KW  - Social fact
KW  - Social issue
KW  - Social science
KW  - Social status
KW  - Social stigma
KW  - Social theory
KW  - Society
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Sodomy
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Sultana's Dream
KW  - Tanika Sarkar
KW  - Testimonial
KW  - Treatise
KW  - Widow
KW  - Women in Islam
KW  - Writing
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society.Bringing together vast archival materials from diverse disciplines, Mitra reveals that deviant female sexuality was critical to debates about social progress and exclusion, caste domination, marriage, widowhood and inheritance, women's performance, the trafficking of girls, abortion and infanticide, industrial and domestic labor, indentured servitude, and ideologies about the dangers of Muslim sexuality. British authorities and Indian intellectuals used the concept of the prostitute to argue for the dramatic reorganization of modern Indian society around Hindu monogamy. Mitra demonstrates how the intellectual history of modern social thought is based in a dangerous civilizational logic built on the control and erasure of women's sexuality. This logic continues to hold sway in present-day South Asia and the postcolonial world.Reframing the prostitute as a concept, Indian Sex Life overturns long-established notions of how to write the history of modern social thought in colonial India, and opens up new approaches for the global history of sexuality
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691197029?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691197029
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