This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses.

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Srirupa Prasad is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology at University of Missouri, USA. She previously taught at University of Madison-Wisconsin, USA, in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics.

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Table of Contents Introduction: Contagion and Cultural Politics of Hygiene 1. Alimentary Anxieties: Affect in Food and Hunger 2. Body, Hygiene, and Affective Politics of Gandhi's Swaraj 3. Imagining the Social Body: Competing Moralities of Care and Contagion 4. Affective Remedies: Advertisements and Cultural Politics of Hygiene