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Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864–1939)

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Mark Crinson is justified in arguing that Delhi ‘is probably the most studied of all modern colonial cities, the pre-eminent test case of postcolonial urban studies’.1 It has been written about in ...

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Stephen Legg (2009) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a78d1556971db5bdd6737ef https://doi.org/10.1080/03071020903257018

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