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Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India

By Stephen Legg

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780822376170
DOI
10.1515/9780822376170
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5532636 bytes)
Pages
296\293
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 14:31:23

Description

A theoretically sophisticated historical account of the ways prostitution was managed and regulated in the interwar period in colonial India. Stephen Legg shows that such regulation was outsourced by the government to reformatist civil societies, such as the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene. He tracks the ways that government policy and popular opinion shifted from acceptance of prostitution, to segregation and regulation, and, finally, to suppression and abolition.

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