Rereading the 1890s: Venereal disease as "constitutional crisis" in Britain and British India

Journal of Asian Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 585-612

  Levine, Philippa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2646447     Document Type: Article

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