Gandhi's body : sex, diet, and the politics of nationalism
Title:
Gandhi's body : sex, diet, and the politics of nationalism
Author:
Alter, Joseph S.
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Publication Information:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2000]
©2000
Physical Description:
xviii, 207 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Gandhi's body, Gandhi's truth -- The ethereal politics of the Mahatma's fasts -- Nature cure and yoga: transnational experiments with ether and hydrotherapy -- Surya Namaskar: salute to village democracy -- Somatic nationalism: Gama the great, another heroic Indian -- Post-Gandhian somatics: auto-urine therapy.
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ISBN:
9780812235562
Format :
Book
