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Contents

Maps appear on pages 17 and 30

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Prologue: Birth on the Threshold

Introduction: Childbirth and Modernity in Tamil Nadu

1. The Professionalization of Obstetrics in Colonial India: The “Problem” of Childbirth in Colonial Discourse

2. Maternal and Child Health Services in the Postcolonial Era

3. Bangles of Neem, Bangles of Gold: Pregnant Women as Auspicious Burdens

4. Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Birth

5. Moving Targets: The Routinization of IUD Insertions in Public Maternity Wards

6. “Baby Friendly” Hospitals and Bad Mothers: Maneuvering Development during the Postpartum Period

Conclusion: Reproductive Rights, “Choices,” and Resistance

Epilogue

Appendix I. Sample Interview Questionnaires

Appendix II. Official Structure of Maternal-Child Health Care Institutions and Practitioners in Tamil Nadu, 1995

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index