Imperial Bodies The Physical Experience of the Raj, C. 1800-1947

Name: Imperial Bodies The Physical Experience of the Raj, C. 1800-1947
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ISBN: 9780745623702

ISBN-10: 0745623700

ISBN-13: 9780745623702

Edition: 2001

Authors: E. M. Collingham

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Through a discussion of texts and practices, the human body is introduced into the historical account as an active social principle. Collingham paints a vivid picture of the life and manners of the British in India.

Book details

List price: $31.25
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 7/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.04" wide x 9.04" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



List of Plates


Acknowledgements


Glossary


Introduction



The Nabob, c.1800-1857



The Indianized Body


Rule in an 'Indian idiom'


Survival in an 'Indian idiom'


The dangers of indianization


The limits of indianization


The depth of indianization



The Anglicization of the Body


Rule in a British idiom


The ban on the East


Survival in a British idiom



The Limits of Anglicization


The 'baba logue'


The bungalow


The household servants



The Sahib, 1858-1939



The Sahib as an Instrument of Rule


The competition-wallah and the ideal official body


Imperial ceremony and the symbolic body


The bureaucratic body


Prestige and physical violence



The Social Body


Social life and conformity


The fragility of domestic space


Prestige in the bathroom


Degeneration and the regulation of sexuality


Race and sociability


Epilogue: The Dissolution of the Anglo-Indian Body, 1939-1947


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index