<p><b>How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in India</b><br><br>During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals¿philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics¿deployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society. In <i>Indian Sex Life</i>, Durba Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society.<br><br>Bringing together vast archival materials from diverse disciplines, Mitra reveals that deviant female sexuality was critical to debates about social progress and exclusion, caste domination, marriage, widowhood and inheritance, women''s performance, the trafficking of girls, abortion and infanticide, industrial and domestic labor, indent
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