Introduction: prostitution and the law in Bombay
The colonial state, law, and sexuality
A failed experiment? The Contagious Diseases Acts in Bombay
Racial stratification and the discourse of trafficking
Akootai's death: subaltern Indian brothel workers
Abolition and nationalism
Conclusion: the failed promise of laws: contemporary reflections.
Codes of misconduct : regulating prostitution in late colonial Bombay by Ashwini Tambe. ISBN 9780816651382. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.