Public Health in British India Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859}}}1914 [Paperback]

An examination of medicine's role in the consolidation of colonial rule in the Indian Raj.Emphasizing the active role of the indigenous population, this first major study differs significantly from other works by covering previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes toward India and their reflections in medical literature as well as medical policy.Emphasizing the active role of the indigenous population, this first major study differs significantly from other works by covering previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes toward India and their reflections in medical literature as well as medical policy.This is the first major study of public health in British India. It covers many previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes toward India and its inhabitants, and the way in which these were reflected in medical literature and medical policy; the fate of public health at the local level under Indian control; and the effects of quarantine on colonial trade and the pilgrimage to Mecca. The book places medicine within the context of debates about the government of India, and relations between rulers and ruled, and in emphasizing the active role of the indigenous population it differs significantly from other work in this subject area.Preface; Introduction; 1. The Indian medical service; 2. Tropical hygiene: disease theory and prevention in nineteenth-century India; 3. The foundations of public health in India: crisis and constraint; 4. Cholera theory and sanitary policy; 5. Quarantine, pilgrimage, and colonial trade: India 18661900; 6. Professional visions and political realities, 18961914; 7. Public health and local self-government; 8. The politics of health in Calcutta, 18761899; Conclusion. A scholarly, extensively researched, well-annotated, and amply referenced work, and a valuable resource. Choice Public Health in British India is a commendable work marked by its substantial scholarly apparatus -- fifty pages of notes, extelór