: race, freedom and confinement in colonial India Satadru, Sen. creator Sen Satadru. text Delhi : Primus Books , 2012 monographic eng

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viii, 359p. : 24cm. This volume examines three interrelated aspects of the history of British India: race, the disciplining institution, and attempts by the colonized to imagine states of freedom. They deal with sites as diverse as the prison, the family, the classroom, the playing field and children’s literature. The essays confront the ideological, social and political ramifications of the fact that even as metropolitan prisons and schools shifted their attention from the body to the confined ‘soul’, colonial disciplinary institutions ensured that race was firmly attached to the body and its habits. They also engage the historiography that has sought to underline the challenges of reconciling Michel Foucault and Edward Said. They ask whether the liberating possibilities of the racialized-and-embodied ‘native’ self were confined to inversions and rearrangements of given normative hierarchies, or if we can occasionally glimpse radical departures and alternative configurations of power. / Sen Satadru. Imprisonment-India Female offenders-India Juvenile delinquency-India 954.03 SAT 9789380607313 Brijwasi Book Distributors H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi 251112 20251112120602.0