مواجهه با بدن: سیاست‌های جسمانیت در هند استعماری و پس از استعماری (مطالعات جنوب آسیا انتقام)

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. The human body in modern South Asia is a continuous political enterprise. The body was central to the project of British colonialism, as well as to the Indian response to colonial rule. By constructing British bodies as normative and disciplined, and Indian bodies as deviant and undisciplined, the British could construct an ideology of their own fitness for political power and for the defence of colonialism itself. The politics of physicality was then manifested in reverse in many ways, not least through Gandhi's use of his body as a public experiment in discipline, and a living rejection of British rule and norms of physicality. In the post-colonial period the politics of physicality became more public. Bodies and their symbolic meanings were 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. In this challenging and wide-ranging new collection, the editors have assembled some of the best new writing on physicality in modern India. Providing a balance of materials from colonial and post-colonial India, Confronting the Body includes new research by established and up-and-coming writers in the social sciences and humanities. Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction • James H Mills and Satadru Sen 1. Body, Text, Nation: Writing the Physically Fit Body in Post-Colonial India • Joseph S Alter 2. ‘A Parcel of Dummies’? Sport and the Body in Indian History • Paul Dimeo 3. Schools, Athletes and Confrontation: The Student Body in Colonial India • Satadru Sen 4. Body as Target, Violence as Treatment: Psychiatric Regimes in Colonial and Post-Colonial India • James H Mills 5. The Lotah Emeutes of 1855: Caste, Religion and Prisons in North India in the Early Nineteenth Century • Anand A Yang 6. The Body at Work: Colonial Art Education and the Figure of the ‘Native Craftsman’ • Deepali Dewan 7. Making a Dravidian Hero: The Body and Identity Politics in the Dravidian Movement • Nimmi Rangaswamy 8. Describing the Body: The Writing of Sex and Gender Identity for the Contemporary Bengali Woman • Srimati Basu 9. A Perfect 10 – ‘Modern and Indian’: Representations of the Body in Beauty Pageants and the Visual Media in Contemporary India • Shoma Munshi 10. Demographic Rhetoric and Sexual Surveillance: Indian Middle-Class Advocates of Birth Control, 1920s–1940s • Sanjam Ahluwalia The human body in modern South Asia is a continuous political enterprise. The body was central to the project of British colonialism, as well as to the Indian response to colonial rule. By constructing British bodies as normative and disciplined, and Indian bodies as deviant and undisciplined, the British could construct an ideology of their own fitness for political power and defence of colonialism itself. The politics of physicality then manifested in reverse in many ways, not least through Gandhi's use of his body as public experiment in discipline, as well as becoming a living rejection of British rule and norms of physicality. This unique collection makes for fascinating reading.