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"Dismissed by Gandhi as a 'gutter inspector's report, Katherine Mayo's Mother India created a storm of controversy when it was first published in the late twenties. In her introduction to this work Mrinalini Sinha locates the debate over Mother India in the broader context of the politics of its production and reception and examines its impact on the 'woman question' outside India. The controversy over the book not only facilitated the passage of the Child ...