Regulationist Measures: Prostitution and Politics in the State of Mysore

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Title

Regulationist Measures: Prostitution and Politics in the State of Mysore

Subject

Cantonment
Civilian Space
Lock Hospitals
Prostitution
Syphilis

Description

The paper explores official policies towards Prostitution and the spread of Venereal Diseases in the Cantonment and Mysore Provinces. A medico-military discourse emerged in the Cantonment with the spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases among white troopers. Transgressive sex was tolerated despite prostitutes being considered a receptacle of diseases. In not recognizing the dynamics of disease transmission, regulatory measures and race, sex, and class-bias blatantly vilified prostitutes. Though civilian spaces in the State of Karnataka were not as complex, regulations were enforced in tandem with the Cantonment during the colonial rule. Consequently, after the independence, the State’s measures were coincidental with the social purity movement’s censure of Devadasis.

Creator

M, Jamuna

Source

Artha Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 17 No. 2 (2018): Artha Journal of Social Sciences; 105-116
0000-0000
0975-329X

Publisher

Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

Date

2018-04-01

Rights

Copyright (c) 2019 Artha - Journal of Social Sciences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Text

Identifier

Citation

Jamuna M, Regulationist Measures: Prostitution and Politics in the State of Mysore, Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 2018, accessed November 6, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/445

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