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Indian Sex Life - Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Paperback)
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Indian Sex Life - Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Paperback)
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How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas
about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern
society in India 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.
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