Contagion and Enclaves Tropical Medicine in Colonial India |
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| Author:
| Bhattacharya, Nandini |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84631-829-0 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2013 |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $49.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.