Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

by Mytheli Sreenivas

Finalist for the inaugural ACLS Open Access Book Prize

Calculating the cost of life in a transnational context

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295748834
• ISBN13: 9780295748832
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher