Meat, Mercy, Morality

Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920

Dr. Samiparna Samanta (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2021
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-012913-2 (ISBN)

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This book disentangles complex discourses around humanitarianism to understand the nature of British colonialism in India. It contends that the colonial project of animal protection in late nineteenth-century Bengal mirrored an irony. Emerging notions of public health and debates on cruelty against animals exposed the disjunction between the claims of a benevolent Empire and a powerful imperial reality where the state constantly sought to discipline its subjects-both human and nonhuman. Centered around stories of animals as diseased, eaten, and overworked, the
book shows how such contests over appropriate measures for controlling animals became part of wider discussions surrounding environmental ethics, diet, sanitation, and the politics of race and class. The author
combines history with archive, arguing that colonial humanitarianism was not only an idiom of rule, but was also translated into Bengali dietetics, anxieties, vegetarianism, and vigilantism, the effect of which can be seen in
contemporary politics of animal slaughter in India.

Samiparna Samanta is an Associate Professor of History at Jindal Global Law School, O. P Jindal Global University (JGU), India.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.10.2021
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	46 x 221 mm
Gewicht	382 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-012913-1 / 0190129131
ISBN-13	978-0-19-012913-2 / 9780190129132
Zustand	Neuware