The volume explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. It will be of interest to scholars of history, especially the history of medicine and the history of colonialism and imperialism, sociology, social anthropology, cultural theory, and South Asian Studies, as well as to health workers and NGOs.
The book is a must for students of the history of South Asia, and not just its medical history, since it has a lot about colonial rule in practice.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Biswamoy Pati
Biswamoy Pati teachers at the Department of History, Sri Venkateswara college, University of Delhi. He is the author of Resisting Domination: Peasant, Tribals and the National Movement in Orissa, 1920-1950 (1993), Situating Social History: Orissa, 1800-1997 (2001) and Identity, Hegemony, Resistance: Towards a Social History of Conversions in India, 1800-2000 (2003). He has edited Turbulent Times: India, 1940-44 (1998) and Issues in Modern Indian History: for Sumit Sarkar (2000), and co-edited Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India (2001).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mark Harrison
Mark Harrison is Director of the Welcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford and Reader in the History of Medicine within the Modern History faculty. His books include Public Health in British India: Anglo Indian Preventive Medicine, 1859-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in World War Two (Oxford University Press, 2004), and articles on various aspects of the history of war, imperialism and medicine.
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