A colonial haunting : prostitution and the politics of sex trafficking in British India, 1917-1939

Following the murder of a Bombay prostitute in 1917, the Government of India launched a series of investigations and commissions of inquiry in order to determine the scope of prostitution and extent of sex trafficking across British India. Between 1917 and 1939, these colonial projects produced a va...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chang, Sandy
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43064