Confronting the Body
Mills, James H. / Sen, Satadru![Confronting the Body](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/170/1709114/CHSBZCOP031709114.jpg)
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 man...