Docile Bodies? Reflections on a recruitment photograph from India during the Second World War
Gupta, D. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3526-4148 (2025).
Docile Bodies? Reflections on a recruitment photograph from India during the Second World War.
In: Ferris, K. ORCID: 0000-0002-3707-5618 & Halstead, H. ORCID: 0000-0002-8788-4325 (Eds.),
Miniatures: A Reader in the History of Everyday Life.
(pp. 212-217). Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press.
doi: 10.47788/xnqo7504
Abstract
Diya Gupta presents a photograph from British military recruitment in India during the Second World War. Her commentary demonstrates that colonial archival material can be mobilized for postcolonial analysis by careful reading of its absences and silences, in this case the corporeal and colonial hierarchies in evidence in the photograph.
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Departments: | School of Policy & Global Affairs School of Policy & Global Affairs > International Politics |
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