Bøker av Ishita (Queen's University Pande

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examining India's Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and the establishment of 'age' as a political category governing intimate life in late colonial India.

Focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in colonial India. Tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, this book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism.