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This volume examines three interrelated aspects of the history of British India: race, the disciplining institution, and attempts by the colonized to imagine states of freedom. They deal with sites as diverse as the prison, the family, the classroom, the playing field and children’s literature. The included essays confront the ideological, social and political ramifications of the fact that even as metropolitan prisons and schools shifted their attention from the body of the inmate to the confined ‘soul’, colonial disciplinary institutions ensured that race was firmly attached to the body and its habits. About the Author Satadru Sen is Associate Professor of South Asian history at the City University of New York.