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035 _a(OCoLC)1127950539
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072 7 _aHIS017000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMitra, Durba
_eautore
245 1 0 _aIndian Sex Life :
_bSexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought /
_cDurba Mitra.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (304 p.) :
_b15 b/w illus.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction. Excess, a History --
_t1. Origins: Philology and the Study of Indian Sex Life --
_t2. Repetition: Law and the Sociology of Deviant Female Sexuality --
_t3. Circularity: Forensics, Abortion, and the Evidence of Deviant Female Sexuality --
_t4. Evolution: Ethnology and the Primitivity of Deviant Female Sexuality --
_t5. Veracity: Life Stories and the Revelation of Social Life --
_tAfterword --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tImage Credits --
_tIndex --
_tA Note on the Type
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aDuring 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
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653 _aAbortion.
653 _aAfsaneh Najmabadi.
653 _aAncient India.
653 _aBanerjee.
653 _aCaste.
653 _aCesare Lombroso.
653 _aChastity.
653 _aChatterjee.
653 _aCivilization.
653 _aColonial India.
653 _aColonialism.
653 _aConcubinage.
653 _aContagious Diseases Acts.
653 _aCourtesan.
653 _aCrime.
653 _aCriminal law.
653 _aCulture of India.
653 _aDeviance (sociology).
653 _aEndogamy.
653 _aEpisteme.
653 _aEroticism.
653 _aEthnography.
653 _aEthnology.
653 _aEugenics.
653 _aExclusion.
653 _aExplanation.
653 _aFallen woman.
653 _aForensic science.
653 _aGender role.
653 _aGovernment of India.
653 _aHarvard University.
653 _aHerbert Spencer.
653 _aHermeneutics.
653 _aHindu law.
653 _aHindu.
653 _aHistoriography.
653 _aHuman female sexuality.
653 _aIdeology.
653 _aInception.
653 _aIndia Office.
653 _aIndian Penal Code.
653 _aIndology.
653 _aInfanticide.
653 _aIslamic marital practices.
653 _aKnowledge economy.
653 _aKolkata.
653 _aLiterature.
653 _aMasculinity.
653 _aMedical jurisprudence.
653 _aModernity.
653 _aMonogamy.
653 _aMorality.
653 _aNarrative.
653 _aNational Archives of India.
653 _aObjectivity (science).
653 _aObscenity.
653 _aPathologica.
653 _aPatriarchy.
653 _aPerversion.
653 _aPhilology.
653 _aPolitical philosophy.
653 _aPollution.
653 _aPositivism.
653 _aProcuring (prostitution).
653 _aProgressivism.
653 _aPromiscuity.
653 _aProstitution in India.
653 _aProstitution law.
653 _aProstitution.
653 _aPublication.
653 _aPuranas.
653 _aRacial hierarchy.
653 _aSanskrit.
653 _aSex life.
653 _aSexology.
653 _aSexual desire.
653 _aSexual norm.
653 _aSexual violence.
653 _aShame.
653 _aShort story.
653 _aSocial Practice.
653 _aSocial change.
653 _aSocial exclusion.
653 _aSocial fact.
653 _aSocial issue.
653 _aSocial science.
653 _aSocial status.
653 _aSocial stigma.
653 _aSocial theory.
653 _aSociety.
653 _aSociology.
653 _aSodomy.
653 _aSouth Asia.
653 _aSultana's Dream.
653 _aTanika Sarkar.
653 _aTestimonial.
653 _aTreatise.
653 _aWidow.
653 _aWomen in Islam.
653 _aWriting.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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