Stephen Legg: 2 books
Prostitution and the Ends of Empire
Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of sexology and hygiene with the moral condemnations...
Spaces of Colonialism
Delhi's Urban Governmentalities
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule.
The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi
Draws on the governmentality theories and methodologies presented in Michel Foucault’s lecture...