Title Contagion and Enclaves : Tropical Medicine in Colonial India / Nandini Bhattacharya.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource.
Series	Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 10
	Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 10.
Note	Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2014).
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-209) and index.
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. 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. It establishes the vital link between medicine, the political economy and the social history of colonialism. It demonstrates that while enclaves were essential and distinctive sites of articulation of colonial power and economy, they were not isolated sites. The book shows that the critical aspect of the enclaves was in their interconnectedness; with other enclaves, with the global economy and international medical research.
Subject	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.
	Humanities.
	History.
	History: specific events and topics.
	Colonialism and imperialism.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
	HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
	MEDICAL -- Diseases.
	MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
	MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
	MEDICAL -- Public Health.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
	Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753
	Public health. (OCoLC)fst01082238
	Segregation. (OCoLC)fst01111205
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: 9781846318290 1846318297
ISBN	9781846317835 (ebook)
	1846317835 (ebook)
	9781781386361 (electronic bk.)
	1781386366 (electronic bk.)
	9781846318290 (hbk.)
	1846318297 (hbk.)

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