Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India by Stephen Legg

Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India

Stephen Legg

281 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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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 ...

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