The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India

This book analyses the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It incorporates a unique set of themes such as public health and medical institutions. Based on inter-disciplinary research, the book offers valuable contributions to topics that have recently received increased scholarly attention, including the use of opiates and the role of advertising in driving medical markets. Contributors are both established and emerging scholars in the field. The book thus will be of interest to scholars of history, especially the history of medicine and the history of colonialism/imperialism, sociology, cultural theory, and South Asian Studies.

Introduction Mark Harrison and Biswamoy Pati Ranald Martin's Medical Topography [1837]: The Emergence of Public Health in Calcutta Partho Datta The Haj pilgrimage and Issues of Health Saurabh Mishra Subordinate Negotiations: The Indigenous Staff, Colonial state and Public Health Amna Khalid Plague, Quarantine and Empire: British-Indian Sanitary Strategies in Central Asia, 1897-1907 Sanchari Dutta Medical Research and Control of Disease: Kala-azar in British India Achintya Kumar Dutta The Leprosy Patient and Society: Colonial Orissa, 1870s-1940s Chandi P. Nanda and Biswamoy Pati Medical and Colonial Power: The Case of the Mentally Ill in Nineteenth Century Bengal Waltraud Ernst Prejudices Clung to by the Natives: Ethnicity in the Indian Army and Hospitals for Sepoys, c. 1870s-90s Samiksha Sehrawat Racial Pathologies: Morbid Anatomy in British India, 1770-1850 Mark Harrison Pharmacology, Indigenous Knowledge, Nationalism: Few Words from the Epitaph of Subaltern Science Projit B. Mukharji Creating a Medical Consumer: An Analytical Study of Advertisements Madhuri Sharma Opium as a Household Remedy in Nineteenth Century Western India? Amar Farooqui