By Srirupa Prasad
This e-book examines genealogies of contagion in among contagion as microbe and contagion as impact. It analyzes how and why hygiene turned authoritative and succeeded in changing into part of the wider social and cultural vocabulary in the colonialist, anti-colonial, in addition to modernist discourses.
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