Download or read book Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940 written by Srirupa Prasad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses.