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Brown Skins, White Coats - Race Science in India, 1920-66 (Hardcover)
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Brown Skins, White Coats - Race Science in India, 1920-66 (Hardcover)
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A unique narrative structure brings the history of race science in
mid-twentieth-century India to vivid life. There has been a recent
explosion in studies of race science in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries, but most have focused either on Europe or
on North America and Australia. In this stirring history, Projit
Bihari Mukharji illustrates how India appropriated and repurposed
race science to its own ends and argues that these appropriations
need to be understood within the national and regional contexts of
postcolonial nation-making-not merely as footnotes to a Western
history of "normal science." The book comprises seven factual
chapters operating at distinct levels-conceptual, practical, and
cosmological-and eight fictive interchapters, a series of
epistolary exchanges between the Bengali author Hemendrakumar Ray
(1888-1963) and the protagonist of his dystopian science fiction
novel about race, race science, racial improvement, and
dehumanization. In this way, Mukharji fills out the historical
moment in which the factual narrative unfolded, vividly revealing
its moral, affective, political, and intellectual fissures.
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