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Review of Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66 (2022)

March 5, 2026

Booc cover Brown Skins, White Coats

Projit Bihari Mukharji’s Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66 adds an innovative account of India’s twentieth century to the historiography of race science. As the head of the Department of History at Ashoka University in Haryana, India, Mukharji engages with subaltern studies and decolonial writings of South Asian history. The title echoes psychiatrist and […]

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