Download or read book State Intimacies written by Eva Fiks and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public healthcare system in rural India is chronically under-resourced. It embodies and often perpetuates the wider politics of the Indian state towards its rural communities with provisions of care that are deeply entangled with violence and disgust. For rural women, such care deepens reproductive chronicity while providing temporary relief. Grounded in women’s everyday realities and experiences in sterilization camps and other healthcare settings in rural Rajasthan, State Intimacies examines the mundane workings, ambiguities and fragilities of care in post-colonial rural North India.