Colonial aversions and domestic desires: Blood, race, sex and the decline of intimacy in early British India

South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies

Volumn 24, Issue , 2001, Pages 25-45

  Sen, Sudipta ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIA; LEGAL ASPECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; REVIEW; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; UNITED KINGDOM;

BLOOD; COLONIALISM; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMOTIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; RACE RELATIONS; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0345855047     PISSN: 00856401     EISSN: 14790270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00856400108723434     Document Type: Article

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