Fractured States

Fractured States
Author: Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005
Genre: Communicable diseases
ISBN: 9788125028666

This work provides a well rounded history of official smallpox measures and their links with the development of public health in policies and programmes in Brititsh India. It examines vaccination policy and technology from a political, economic and technical perspective as well as the cultural and religious implications of medical intervention in smallpox eradication. There is an exposition of the complex and sometimes contradictory official and civilian attitudes toward the development of smallpox control and public health measures in India.

Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects

Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects
Author: Lynn Hollen Lees
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2017-12-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107038405

This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

Malarial Subjects

Malarial Subjects
Author: Rohan Deb Roy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107172365

This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.