Contagion and enclaves tropical medicine in colonial India

Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. This book studies the social history of medicine w...

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Main Author: Bhattacharya, Nandini
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2012, 2012
Series:Postcolonialism across the disciplines / Postcolonialism across the disciplines
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. This book studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of the British Raj; and in the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal, which produced tea for the global market
Physical Description:xii, 219 p. ill
ISBN:9781846317835