Gandhi's body : sex, diet, and the politics of nationalism / Joseph S. Alter.

  • Alter, Joseph S.
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[2000], ©2000
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2000], ©2000.

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xviii, 207 pages ; 23 cm.

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Gandhi's body, Gandhi's truth -- The ethereal politics of the Mahatma's fasts -- Nature cure and yoga: transnational experiments with ether and hydrotherapy -- Surya Namaskar: salute to village democracy -- Somatic nationalism: Gama the great, another heroic Indian -- Post-Gandhian somatics: auto-urine therapy.

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Includes index and bibliography.

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  • 0812235568