Bodies beyond Binaries

Kate Imy is a screenwriter and historian at Texas Woman’s University and author of ‘Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army’, which won the NACBS Stansky Prize and the American Historical Association’s Pacific Coast Branch Book Award. Her second book, ‘Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915-1960’ is forthcoming with Stanford University Press. She has received the AHA’S Bernadotte Schmitt Grant, a Lee Kong Chian Fellowship from the National University of Singapore and Stanford University, a Fulbright fellowship in India, and a fellowship from the Institute of Historical Research (UK). Teresa Segura-Garcia is a Tenure-track Professor of Modern South Asian History at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, with an ICAS:MP fellowship by the M. S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies. Her recent publications include the edited volume ‘Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments’ (Bloomsbury, 2021) and a chapter on the Indian princely states in the ‘Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia’ (edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Maria Framke, 2021). Elena Valdameri is Senior Researcher at the Professorship for the History of the Modern World, ETH Zurich. She is the author of ‘Indian Liberalism between Nation and Empire. The Political Life of Gopal Krishna Gokhale’ (Routledge, 2022). She works on the history of modern South Asia, with specific interest and expertise in the history of political thought, the anticolonial movement, the politics of the body and citizenship. Her current project examines the role of physical education and outdoor activities for girls and women in late colonial and early independent India as a part of broader modernizing projects that focused on the body as a site of political intervention and used it to convey norms and values of ‘good’ citizenship. Erica Wald is a Senior Lecturer in modern history at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on the social, cultural and military history of colonial India. She is the author of ‘Vice in the Barracks: Medicine, the Military and the Making of Colonial India’ (2014). Her current project, ‘Everyday Empire: Social Life, Spare Time and Rule in Colonial India’ is an exploration of the intersections of social life and colonial rule. She is the co-editor of the British Journal for Military History.

• Table of Contents; Unframing the Binary: Introducing Bodies Beyond Binaries - Kate Imy, Teresa Segura-Garcia, Elena Valdameri and Erica Wald; Part 1: Ruled and Unruly; Chapter 1. Trans without Borders: Castration and the Politics of Historical Knowledge - Howard Chiang; Chapter 2. Embodiment and Biomedical Authority in South Asia: Reading Objectification and Subversion in the Colonial Clinic - Samiksha Sehrawat; Chapter 3. The Body of the Burmese Muslim - Chie Ikeya; Part 2: Emotional and Trained; Chapter 4. Bodies, Emotions, Labour. The Jamia Millia Islamia and the New Education Movement - Margrit Pernau; Chapter 5. A Healthy Body for a Healthy Mind? The Corporal Impact of Student Mobility from and Towards Indochina, 1900-1945 - Sara Legrandjacques; Chapter 6. Wrestling for the Humankind of the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s and Mirra Alfassa’s Politics of Physical Education in Pondicherry - Julia Hauser; Part 3: Mobility and Confinement; Chapter 7. Masculinity on the Move from Barcelona to Bombay: The Men of the Catalan Bourgeoisie and their Bodily Encounters in Colonial India - Teresa Segura-Garcia; Chapter 8. Purdah, National Degeneration, and Pelvic Politics: Women’s Physical Exercise in Colonial India, c. 1900–1947 - Elena Valdameri; Chapter 9. Captive Bodies: Soldier and Civilian Internment in the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1942-1945 - Kate Imy; Part 4: Respectability and Deviancy; Chapter 10. Pigsticking: the ‘Noble’ Indian Boar and Colonial Constructions of Elite Masculinity - Erica Wald; Chapter 11. The Many Lives of the European ‘vagrant’ in colonial Singapore, c. 1890-1940 - Zhi Qing Denise Lim; Chapter 12. Exhibiting Civilization. The Comité Revolucionario Filipino and the Portraits of Filipino Bodies and Minds, 1898-1899 - Laura Diaz-Esteve; Afterword - Willemijn Ruberg; Bibliography; About the Authors; Index