Through a glass darkly: race, thermal sensation and the nervous body in late colonial India

This article explores the role of what might be termed embodied experience in generating knowledge about climate – specifically by focusing on conversations about the effects of climate on the body in late nineteenth-century India. Central to the story is the question of how race maps onto ideas abo...

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Main Authors: Bharat Jayram Venkat, Marieke M.A. Hendriksen, Alexander Wragge-Morley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-01-01
Series:BJHS Themes
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X22000030/type/journal_article

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