The Savage family: Colonialism and female infanticide in nineteenth-century India

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 53-79

  Sen, Satadru ^a  

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EID: 2442438915     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2002.0075     Document Type: Article

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27. Mills, Madness, Cannabis, and Colonialism, 97-100.
28. Mrinalini Sinha, Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate Bengali" in the Late Nineteenth Century (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1995), 1-25.
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