Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Pande, Ishita

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“…26 While the first model developed antipathy towards women and fear of female sexuality, the second model upheld patriarchal notions. 27 Thus, on the one hand, there emerged a masculine body that conservatively confined itself within a Hindu identity while being militant. On the other, there appeared a strand of masculinity influenced both by traditional Indian physical cultures (such as wrestling) and contemporary international trends of bodybuilding circulated through globalised networks.…”

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The Corporeal Empire: Physical Education and Politicising Children's Bodies in Late Colonial Bengal

Topdar¹

2016

Gender & History

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This article deploys children's bodies as an analytical lens to examine the political significance of knowledge production and childhood in British colonial projects in late colonial India. Scholars have theorised the ‘body as method’ of history to argue that bodies are imbued with meanings, become stakes in power struggles and are sites of knowledge and power. I examine this theme by investigating a key locus of knowledge production for children – the colonial school and its curriculum, specifically physical education. To underline the multi‐stranded processes and loci of colonial knowledge production, I examine nationalist pedagogies of two Bengali children's magazines (Amaar Desh and Mouchak) as a form of informal schooling. I argue that the colonial state's engagement with physical education in schools stemmed from anxieties to both discipline native children's bodies, and to discourage students’ ‘seditious’ political activism. Second, I demonstrate that for Bengali educated elites, children embodied a political space for contestation and undertaking their projects of re‐masculinising the youth. These nation‐building projects placed a premium on masculinity, influenced boy cultures to imitate adult male cultures, and inscribed gender roles on the bodies of Bengali boys and girls. By doing so, these colonial encounters restructured and redefined childhood in crucial ways.

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The Corporeal Empire: Physical Education and Politicising Children's Bodies in Late Colonial Bengal

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2016

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“…See Joseph Alter (); Rachel Berger (); Sarah Hodges (); Ishita Pande (, ); Ann Stoler (), and Megan Vaughan ().…”

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“…For a historiography on the body and medicine, see Rachel Berger (); Pratik Chakrabarti (), Rohan Deb Roy & Guy Attewell (); Projit Bihari Mukharji (), and Ishita Pande ().…”

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The historian beneath the skin: Embodiment as methodology in colonial India

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2019

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While the pioneering historians of medicine and sexuality in colonial India have left us a rich scholarly legacy, this article contributes to the history of the body by examining recent historiographical trends outside these realms. I provoke and ask: in what other imaginative ways can we understand our body, its meanings, and its engagement with culture and self. I use embodiment as an analytical category and pedagogical device that offers promising possibilities to access wider social, economic, and epistemological shifts in history. When intersected with other critical concepts such as gender, race, nation, class, caste, and sexuality, embodiment becomes a bridge to the past for understanding how key moments were experienced and lived. Embodiment provides a point of convergence at which both the discursive body and its experiences are given equal attention in order to understand histories. I begin this article with an overview of foundational moments in the historiography of embodiment as a category of historical analysis. Subsequently, I explore three main axes of historiographical pursuits keeping embodiment as the pivot: first, social inscriptions on the body; second, the performance of gender; and third, embodiment as experience.

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“…She points out: "the British empire could no longer present itself as the agent of civilization, bringing light to the benighted parts of the globe… if Bengal was the home of cholera, colonial expansion and global trade were the causes of contagion". 34 22 The "verifiable" truth of the 1911 cholera outbreak may be enough for some to dismiss the colonial trope and its larger significance in Death in Venice. However, it is apparent that Mann's text posits certain ways of representing colonized spaces, fostering the idea of a "tropical dangerous space" that as Mukherjee states, "[was] not always congruent with the actually existing geographical and topographical tropical location" but it "proved to be a key ideology of European imperialism.…”

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The Horror of Contact: Understanding Cholera in Mann’s Death in Venice

Ghosh¹

2017

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Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Cited by 14 publications

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The Corporeal Empire: Physical Education and Politicising Children's Bodies in Late Colonial Bengal

The Corporeal Empire: Physical Education and Politicising Children's Bodies in Late Colonial Bengal

The historian beneath the skin: Embodiment as methodology in colonial India

The Horror of Contact: Understanding Cholera in Mann’s Death in Venice

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