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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. What do you do when faced with a cockroach? Run in fear, stamp it underfoot, or poison and suffocate it with insecticide? Now, what would you do if that same cockroach were twelve feet tall, towering above you with clacking mandibles? Moviegoers in the 1950s were invited to imagine such giant insects threatening them and life as they knew it.
Many historians agree that “colonization and the civilizing mission” rested on Western science’s supremacy over superstition, legitimizing the colonial project with the suppression or eradication of local belief systems. James Esdaile and his experimental mesmeric hospital highlight the contradictions of colonial rule in India.
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