This book analyzes how discourses of cruelty against animals - in veterinary, dietary, and transport registers - inform the colonial imagination of humanitarianism. It argues that debates concerning animals invoked less protectionism, and reflected in microcosm the nature of British Empire and Bengali anxieties over dietetics and identity. Imagining animals as diseased, eaten and overworked, the study reveals that animal cruelty was often enacted in a space where control and submission were the dominant form of governance.
This book analyzes how discourses of cruelty against animals - in veterinary, dietary, and transport registers - inform the colonial imagination of humanitarianism. It argues that debates concerning animals invoked less protectionism, and reflected in microcosm the nature of British Empire and Bengali anxieties over dietetics and identity. Imagining animals as diseased, eaten and overworked, the study reveals that animal cruelty was often enacted in a space where control and submission were the dominant form of governance.
Samiparna Samanta is an Associate Professor of History at Jindal Global Law School, O. P Jindal Global University (JGU), India.
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Acknowledgements List of Legislations List of Tables and Figures Introduction: Writing Embodied Histories-Humans and Non-humans in Nature, Science, and Imperialism 1. Historicizing Humanitarianism in Colonial India 2. The Politics of Care: Veterinarians and Humanitarians 3. Meat: To Eat or Not to Eat? 4. The Anomaly of 'Animal': Unburdening the Beast Conclusion: Liminal Boundaries, Colonial Ironies Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author
Acknowledgements List of Legislations List of Tables and Figures Introduction: Writing Embodied Histories-Humans and Non-humans in Nature, Science, and Imperialism 1. Historicizing Humanitarianism in Colonial India 2. The Politics of Care: Veterinarians and Humanitarians 3. Meat: To Eat or Not to Eat? 4. The Anomaly of 'Animal': Unburdening the Beast Conclusion: Liminal Boundaries, Colonial Ironies Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author
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