Contagion and Enclaves [electronic resource] : Tropical Medicine in Colonial India / Nandini Bhattacharya.
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TextSeries: Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 10 | Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 10.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781846317835
- 1846317835
- 9781781386361
- 1781386366
- Medical care -- India -- History -- 19th century
- Public health -- India -- History -- 19th century
- India -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Segregation -- India -- History -- 19th century
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues
- MEDICAL -- Diseases
- MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery
- MEDICAL -- Health Policy
- MEDICAL -- Public Health
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues
- HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia
- Medical care
- Public health
- Segregation
- Social conditions
- India
- 1800 - 1899
- 362.1095409034 23
- RA395.I5 B43 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-209) and index.
Contagion and Enclaves 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.
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