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020			_a9780190129132 _qhbk.
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100			_aSamanta, Samiparna, _91636658 _eauthor
245			_aMeat, mercy, morality : _banimals and humanitarianism in colonial Bengal, 1850-1920 / _cSamiparna Samanta.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bOxford University Press, _c2021.
520			_a"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."--
650			_aIndia--Bengal _bAnimal welfare _91637410
650			_aAnimals as carriers of disease _979965
650			_aHumanitarianism _91497
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