Confronting the Body - The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India (Paperback)

The human body in modern South Asia has been continually manipulated into political enterprise. The body was central to the project of British colonialism, as it was in the Indian response to colonial rule. By constructing British bodies as normative and disciplined, and Indian bodies as deviant and undisciplined, the British could fashion an ideology of their own fitness for political power and defense of colonialism itself. The politics of physicality then manifested in reverse in many ways, not least through Ghandi s use of his body as public experiment in discipline, as well as a living rejection of British rule and norms of physicality. In the post-colonial period, the politics of physicality continued and, through mass communication, became more public with bodies and their symbolic meanings deployed not only against the European "Other" but, increasingly, against other Indian bodies - be it the representation of political aspiration, beauty pageants and the representation of nationalism on the world stage, the furtherance of feminist issues, or the moral issues of sexual images of women in the media.The editors bring together some of the best new scholarship on physicality in modern India in a single volume, and provide a balance of materials from colonial and post-colonial India. Included are new writings by established and upcoming writers in the social sciences and humanities, all based on original research.

General

Imprint:	Anthem Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Anthem South Asian Studies
Release date:	2004
First published:	2004
Editors:	James H. Mills • Satadru Sen
Dimensions:	234 x 155 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-1-84331-033-4
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84331-033-3
Barcode:	9781843310334

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