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Contents Preface: History, Body, Culture PART I. RETHINKING THE MAHATMA IX Chapter 1. Gandhi's Body, Gandhi's Truth 3 Chapter 2. The Ethereal Politics of the Mahatma's Fasts 28 PART II. NATIONALISM, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND THE EMBODIED SELF Chapter 3. Nature Cure and Yoga: Transnational Experiments with Ether and Hydrotherapy 55 Chapter 4. Surya Namaskar-Salute to Village Democracy 83 Chapter 5. Somatic Nationalism: Gama the Great, Another Heroic Indian 113 Conclusion: Post-Gandhian Somatics: Auto-Urine Therapy 146 Glossary 155 Notes 159 References 173 Index 189 Acknowledgments 205 This page intentionally left blank ...

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