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Stephen Legg, Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India

  Now out from Duke University Press – Stephen Legg’s Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India. Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution … Continue reading

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