Contraception, colonialism and commerce : birth control in South India, 1920-1940 / Sarah Hodges.

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008], ©2008.

x, 170 pages ; 24 cm.

Introduction : late colonial biopolitics -- Anxiety without action : contraception and the late colonial state -- The Madras Neo-Malthusian League and global networks of contraceptive evangelism -- An apocalyptic body politics of modernity : contraception and the self respect movement -- Contraceptive commercialism -- Epilogue : the state of the population : history and fertility in twentieth-century Tamil Nadu.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-165) and index.