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Legible bodies, race, criminality, and colonialism in South Asia, Clare Anderson

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Legible bodies, race, criminality, and colonialism in South Asia, Clare Anderson
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-232) and index
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index present
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non fiction
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Legible bodies
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Clare Anderson
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race, criminality, and colonialism in South Asia
Table Of Contents
Introduction: textualizing the Indian criminal body -- Inscribing the criminal body: the penal tattoo -- 'Surely there is more in this than mere ornament': ethnography, surveillance, and the decorative tattoo -- The question of convict dress -- Voir/savoir: photographing, measuring and fingerprinting the Indian criminal -- Emperors of the Lilliputians: criminal physiology and the Indian social body
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