Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864–1939)

2009/11/01 by Stephen Legg · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Sex work and related issues #Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/03071020903257018

openalex publication_date 2009/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Mark Crinson is justified in arguing that Delhi ‘is probably the most studied of all modern colonial cities, the pre-eminent test case of postcolonial urban studies’.1 It has been written about in ...

Citations

• Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
• An Intimate and Imperial Feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial India

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