{"product_id":"imperial-bodies-9780745623702","title":"Imperial Bodies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis innovative volume demonstrates that the body was central to the construction and maintenance of British authority in India. \u003ci\u003eImperial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e explores ways in which the transformation of the British presence in India between 1800 and 1947 involved and relied upon changes in the way the British in India managed, disciplined and displayed their bodies. The move from commerce to control, and then to imperialism and Empire corresponded to a shift in bodily norms. As the nineteenth century progressed, an openness and interest in India gave way to a ban on things Indian. The British rejected curries for tinned ham, cool white clothing for black broadcloth and Indian mistresses for English wives. By the twentieth century, the British official had been transformed into an upright, decent representative of British virtues whose task was to bring civilization to India. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy the late nineteenth century, racial theory focused attention on the physique to such an extent that the b\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I am deeply impressed by the assurance, craftsmanship and historical judgement displayed by Imperial Bodies. It represents the new fusion of colonial history and body history at its very best.' \u003ci\u003eRoy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Collingham's work on the physical experience of the British is a remarkable piece of research and analysis. Perhaps the most extraordinary part of the work is her section at the end of the book on the \"Social Body\" where she describes the new tasks (mostly not undertaken) that confronted the British understanding of their bodies as the moment of Independence of India and Pakistan loomed.' \u003ci\u003eGene Irschick, University of California at Berkeley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"its ambition is to be applauded\" \u003ci\u003eMark Harrison, University of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Lively and insightful.' \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A first-rate read ... What makes Imperial Bodies such fun to delve into is the mass of fascinating social detail that its author has uncovered and assembled; by turns medical, biological, culinary, sartorial, sexual, even scatological, drawn from sources as diverse as advertisements for soft flannels in The Englishman, Chota Sahib's Camp Recipes for Camp People (Madras, 1890) and the Whipping Bill of 1864. In sum, a fine body of work.' \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Beautifully written, this history of the body during the Raj is a telling antidote to the traditional imperial histories of the British occupation of India. Weaving analytical and empirical knowledge E.M. Collingham produces a very readable and at times shocking history of British arrogance and ignorance of Indian cultures and histories ... It is a remarkable book, one that reaches well beyond an academic audience to all of us concerned with the trends behind the cultural and social inequalities and confusions with which we continue to struggle.' \u003ci\u003eDevelopment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Using this evolving parade of the colonial presence, Cambridge academic E.M. Collingham provides a fascinating sweep of Anglo-Indian society and its attitudes to a variety of topics, among them the home, dress, food, cleanliness, sexuality, and servants.' \u003ci\u003eThe Natal Witness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I found this book more illuminating than any previous postcolonial history, both because it sees the world that children saw - which is not far from a world that an observant doctor sees - and because it goes further in accounting for it and explaining its unique mix of lovable and repellant features than anything else I have read.\" \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Epidemiology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Readers will find much that is original and of interest in this book.\" \u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a highly readable and lucid account of a relatively new topic in imperial history and historiography and should prove of value to historians as well as scholars in a number of other disciplines.\" \u003ci\u003eKleio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Well researched, clearly argued, and full of rich and interesting detail, this is a book that will be of interest to anthropologists, culture historians and scholars working in the field of colonial and post-colonial studies.\" \u003ci\u003eJoseph S. Alter, Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Plates. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Nabob, c.1800-1857.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. The Indianized Body.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRule as an 'Indian Idiom'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurvival of an 'Indian Idiom'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dangers of Indianization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Limits of Indianization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Depth of Indianization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. The Anglicization of the Body.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRule in a British Idiom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ban on the East.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurvival in a British Idiom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. The Limits of Anglicization.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 'Baba Logue'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bungalow.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Household Servants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. The Sahib 1857-1939.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. The Sahib as an Instrument of Rule.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Competition-Wallah and the Ideal Official Body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImperial Ceremony and the Symbolic Body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bureaucratic Body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrestige and Physical Violence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. The Social Body.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Life and Conformity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fragility of Domestic Space.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrestige in the Bathroom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDegeneration and the Regulation of Sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRace and Sociability.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpilogue: The Dissolution of the Anglo-Indian Body, 1939-1947.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767974003031,"sku":"9780745623702","price":22.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745623702.jpg?v=1758715748","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imperial-bodies-9780745623702","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}