Nationalizing the Body

Mukharji, Projit Bihari

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“…48 Projit Bihari Mukharji's Nationalizing the Body explores such everyday practices to understand the history of medicine just as Sharmistha Gooptu's work on Bengali films delves into consumption and the everyday life of the middle-class. 49…”

Section: Everyday Practices and The Making Of The Middle-class In Soumentioning

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Consumption and the Making of the Middle‐Class in South Asia

Ray

2014

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The historiography of the middle‐class in colonial India is a long and checkered one. Although traditional scholarship focused on the economic origins of this class, in recent years, scholars have become interested in knowing how this class fashioned itself. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the ‘cultural capital’, these scholars try to delve into the contradictory forces that mark the self‐fashioning of the middle‐class. In this paper, I will discuss these new trends in the historiography of the middle‐class. I will chiefly focus on the historiography of taste and consumption in the context of colonial as well as post‐colonial India. A focus on consumption and the middle‐class, I argue, enables us to understand how the middle‐class negotiates its self‐fashioning through various social hierarchies.

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Consumption and the Making of the Middle‐Class in South Asia

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2014

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“…Hereditary medical practice tended to underwrite several claims of status, while status modified medical repertoires and grounded them more firmly in Brahmanic textual traditions. 20 Yet, the 'systemic' frame cannot be hastily discarded. Even as historians have grown suspicious and voiced their critiques of the frame, others-such as anthropologists and activists-have adopted it.…”

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“…49 Forays into new archives have also revealed a hitherto largely ignored world of vernacularized 'western' medicine. 50 While anthropologists had long been aware of such a domain, it had largely eluded the historian's gaze until now. Its discovery disturbs the clarity of the line that is often drawn between the 'indigenous' and 'western' medical praxes.…”

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Symptoms of Dis‐Ease: New Trends in the Histories of ‘Indigenous’ South Asian Medicines

Mukharji¹

2011

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Contemporary historical scholarship on South Asia’s ‘indigenous’ medical traditions date from the mid‐1970s. It was not until the late 1990s, however, that this became a thriving area of historical research. As work in the area has grown exponentially over the past decade and a half, many of the older frameworks of analysis have been critiqued and modified. Most recent scholarship in the field clearly expresses symptoms of the dis‐ease with many of the well‐entrenched frameworks. This essay, by no means exhaustive, charts some of the major themes and approaches which have dominated the histories of ‘indigenous’ medicines in South Asia and signals the dis‐eases with them.

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“…Although Calcutta was equal in size and had a similar structure of banks and joint stock companies to those seen in Bombay, the latter had a more integrated business community as seen in the Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1836 two years after the same body in Calcutta, but representing local businesses as well as European 93. Bombay's Parsee businesses were well connected in India and their businessmen travelled to Europe, including Glasgow, to take part in exhibitions of Indian goods and established retail outlets in elite thoroughfares such as London's Regents Street 94. The centrality of migrant traders was signaled in market information provided to Stirling by Bombay agents Grey & Co in…”

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Selling Printed Cottons in Mid-Nineteenth-Century India: John Matheson of Glasgow and Scottish Turkey Red

Nenadic¹

2019

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This article on cotton sales in India considers the market information that was gathered mid-nineteenth century by commission agents in Bombay and by personal observations of Glasgow Turkey red entrepreneur John Matheson. The article includes an account of the rise and demise of Turkey red cotton printing in Scotland; and explores the variety of piece sizes, patterns, colors, and packaging that was necessary for sales in India. It also reveals seasonal changes in demand and an appetite for novelty patterns. What did Matheson, his contemporaries, and his agents understand about their Indian markets and consider their limited ability to shape consumer taste? The article concludes that despite the existence of much relevant information conveyed from India, there was a blindness to the realities of India’s complex textile industry and dress cultures, which had implications for product development in Britain.

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Nationalizing the Body

Abstract: Nationalizing the Body examines the different meanings of modern medicine that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around modernity.

Cited by 71 publications

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Consumption and the Making of the Middle‐Class in South Asia

Consumption and the Making of the Middle‐Class in South Asia

Symptoms of Dis‐Ease: New Trends in the Histories of ‘Indigenous’ South Asian Medicines

Selling Printed Cottons in Mid-Nineteenth-Century India: John Matheson of Glasgow and Scottish Turkey Red

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Nationalizing the Body

Abstract: Nationalizing the Body examines the different meanings of modern medicine that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around modernity.

Cited by 71 publications

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Consumption and the Making of the Middle‐Class in South Asia

Consumption and the Making of the Middle‐Class in South Asia

Symptoms of Dis‐Ease: New Trends in the Histories of ‘Indigenous’ South Asian Medicines

Selling Printed Cottons in Mid-Nineteenth-Century India: John Matheson of Glasgow and Scottish Turkey Red

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Abstract: Nationalizing the Body examines the different meanings of modern medicine that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around modernity.