Society Medicine and Politics in Colonial India

The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume presents a selection of essays examining varied aspects of health and medicine as they relate to the political upheavals of the colonial era. These ran <p><em>List of Figures and Tables. </em><em>Contributors. </em><em>Acknowledgements. </em>Introduction <strong>1. </strong>The Sentencing of Assisted Suicide in the Nizamut Adawlut, 1810-1829: Religion, Health and Gender in the Formation of British Indian Criminal Law <strong>2. </strong>The Great Shift: Cholera Theory and Sanitary Policy in British India, 1867-1879 <strong>3. </strong>Hakims and Haiza: Unani Medicine and Cholera in Late-Colonial India <strong>4. </strong>Of Cholera, Colonialism and Pilgrimage Sites: Rethinking Popular Responses to State Sanitation, c.1867-1900 <strong>5. </strong>Western Science, Indigenous Medicine and the Princely States: The Case of the Ayurvedic Reorganisation in Travancore, 1870-1940 <strong>6. </strong>Christian Missionary Women’s Hospitals in Mysore State, c. 1880-1930 <strong>7. </strong>The Epidemiological, Health and Medical Aspects of Famine: Views from the Madras Presidency (1876-78) <strong>8. </strong>Gender and Insanity: Situating the Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Bengal <strong>9. </strong>Confining 'Lunatics': The Cuttack Asylum, c.1864-1906 <strong>10. </strong>What did the ‘Wise Men’ Say? Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Health in Nineteenth-Century Bengal <strong>11. </strong>Feminizing Empire: The Association of Medical Women in India and the Campaign for a Women’s Medical Service <strong>12. </strong>Indian Physicians and Public Health Challenges: Bombay Presidency, 1896-1920 <strong>13. </strong>Tracking <em>Kala-azar</em>: The East Indian Experience and Experiments. <em>Index</em></p>