Gender Medicine And Society In Colonial India

Author : Sujata Mukherjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199468222

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Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India by Sujata Mukherjee Pdf

This book analyses the interface between medicine and colonial society through the lens of gender. The work traces the growth of hospital medicine in nineteenth century Bengal and shows how it created a space-albeit small-for providing western health care to female patients. It observes that, unlike in the colonial setup, before the advent of hospital medicine women were treated mostly by female practitioners of indigenous therapies who had commendable skill as practitioners. The book also explores the linkages of growth of medical education for women and the role of the Brahmo Samaj in this process. The manuscript tackles several crucial questions including those of racial discrimination, reproductive health practices, sexual health, famines and mortality, and the role of women's agencies and other organizations in popularizing western medicine and healthcare.

Author : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351262187

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Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison Pdf

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 range from the micro-politics of medicine in princely states and institutions such as asylums through to the wider canvas of sanitary diplomacy as well as the meaning of modernity and modernization in the context of British rule. The volume reflects the diversity of the field and showcases exciting new scholarship from early-career researchers as well as more established scholars by bringing to light many locations and dimensions of medicine and modernity. The essays have several common themes and together offer important insights into South Asia’s experience of modernity in the years before independence. Cutting across modernity and colonialism, some of the key themes explored here include issues of race, gender, sexuality, law, mental health, famine, disease, religion, missionary medicine, medical research, tensions between and within different medical traditions and practices and India’s place in an international context. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, sociology, politics and anthropology as well as specialists in the history of medicine.

Author : Samiksha Sehrawat
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0198096607

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Colonial Medical Care in North India by Samiksha Sehrawat Pdf

This book shows how medical care was introduced, expanded, and funded by the colonial state. Intent on limiting medical expenditure, the colonial state created a medical infrastructure with regional and rural-urban disparities in access to medical care, with an over-reliance on the private and voluntary sectors. For the first time, this book analyses medical care for both male and female patients, examining Dufferin Fund hospitals and hospitals for Indian soldiers.

Author : Jessica Hinchy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108492553

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Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India by Jessica Hinchy Pdf

Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.

Author : Biswamoy Pati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Middle class women
ISBN : UVA:X030164827

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Exploring Gender Equations by Biswamoy Pati Pdf

Contributed articles on social status of middle class women in India presented earlier at a conference held at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi in October 2003.

Author : J. Buckingham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781403932730

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Leprosy in Colonial South India by J. Buckingham Pdf

Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and dramatic endemic disease, it is a history of colonial power in nineteenth-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers in south India. Leprosy in Colonial South India offers a detailed examination of the contribution of leprosy treatment and legislative measures to negotiated relationships between indigenous and British medicine and the colonial impact on indigenous class formation, while asserting the agency of the poor and vagrant leprous classes in their own history.

Author : Durba Ghosh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 052185704X

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Sex and the Family in Colonial India by Durba Ghosh Pdf

Study of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India.

Author : Geraldine Hancock Forbes
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : 8180280179

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Women in Colonial India by Geraldine Hancock Forbes Pdf

This Collection Of Essays On Politics, Medicine And Historiography Is About Those India Women Who Began To Be Educated And To Pay Some Role In Public Life.

Author : Madhuri Sharma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : History
ISBN : 938299310X

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Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India by Madhuri Sharma Pdf

This book delves into the social history of medicine and reflects on the complexity of social interaction between indigenous and western medicine in colonial India. The book draws upon a host of authentic sources such as tracts, pamphlets, brochures, booklets of various medicine shops and drug manufacturing companies functioning in the colonial era. This work analyses the medical market and entrepreneurship in medicine in colonial India. It deconstructs the then prevalent 'advertisements', treating them both as a reflection on the contemporaneous values and lifestyles and as a medium for the creation of medical consumers. Emphasizing upon the question of class, gender and racial discriminations, the book also examines the interest generated by modern medical equipment such as the stethoscope and the thermometer, and the way in which these were used to reinforce the norms of social hierarchy and the purdah system. This work also focuses on several debated issues such as birth control, sexuality, and the principles of brahmacharya. The book would be a useful read for sociology and history graduates, as well as researchers and medical professionals.

Author : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : India
ISBN : 8125029915

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Health, Medicine and Empire by Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison Pdf

This collection of essays weaves together several themes related to the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Its focus ranges from analysing Europe's relationship with India's indigenous medical systems, to case studies of two mental asylums(in Madras and Lucknow), the location of the leprosy asylum, the technological aspects and social implications of the colonial vaccination policy, and to colonial interventions related specifically to cholera and plague in the pilgrimage centres of puri and pandharpur. It also examine indigenous initiatives associated with the Indian drug industry and the Unani medical system and their interactions with the colonial health establishment and modern medicine. Besides charting out hiterto unexplored areas in the history and historiography of colonial medicine and its articulation with indigenous systems, this book demonstrates the rich possibilities of inter-disciplinary research. Of particular interest to the specialist reader, it is also useful to those working on modern India history, cultural studies and sociology.

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521563194

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Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India by David Arnold Pdf

Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David Arnold's wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examining the role of science, technology and medicine in conjunction with the development of the British engagement in India and in the formation of Indian responses to western intervention. One of the first works to analyse the colonial era as a whole from the perspective of science, the book investigates the relationship between Indian and western science, the nature of science, technology and medicine under the Company, the creation of state-scientific services, 'imperial science' and the rise of an Indian scientific community, the impact of scientific and medical research and the dilemmas of nationalist science.

Author : Deana Heath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192646163

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Colonial Terror by Deana Heath Pdf

Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule and some of the ways in which extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of colonial states. Although enacted largely by Indians on Indian bodies, particularly by subaltern members of the police, the book argues that torture was facilitated, systematized, and ultimately sanctioned by first the East India Company and then the Raj because it benefitted the colonial regime, since rendering the police a source of terror played a key role in the construction and maitenance of state sovereignty. Drawing upon the work of both Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, Colonial Terror contends, furthermore, that it is only possible to understand the terrorizing nature of the colonial police in India by viewing colonial India as a 'regime of exception' in which two different forms of exceptionality were in operation - one wrought through the exclusion of particular groups or segments of the Indian population from the law and the other by petty sovereigns in their enactment of illegal violence in the operation of the law. It was in such fertile ground, in which colonial subjects were both included within the domain of colonial law while also being abandoned by it, that torture was able to flourish.

Author : E. Wald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137270993

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Vice in the Barracks by E. Wald Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author. Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and alcohol-related problems holding serious implications for the economic and military performance of the East India Company. These concerns revolved around the European soldiery in India – the costly, but often unruly, 'thin white line' of colonial rule. This book examines the colonial state's approach to these vice-driven health risks. In doing so it throws new light on the emergence of social and imperial mindsets and on the empire, fuelled by fear of the lower orders, sexual deviation, disease and mutiny. An exploration of these mindsets reveals a lesser-explored fact of rule – the fractured nature of the Company state. Further, it shows how the measures employed by the state to deal with these vice-driven health problems had wide-ranging consequences not simply for the army itself but for India and the empire more broadly. By refocusing our attention on to the military core of the colonial state, Wald demonstrates the ways in which army decision-making stretched beyond the cantonment boundary to help define the state's engagement with and understanding of Indian society.

Author : Anand A. Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520919963

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Bazaar India by Anand A. Yang Pdf

The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation. The bazaar provides a distinctive locale for posing fundamental questions regarding indigenous societies under colonialism and for highlighting less familiar aspects of colonial India. At one level, Yang reconstructs Bihar's marketing system, from its central place in the city of Patna down to the lowest rung of the periodic markets. But he also concentrates on the dynamics of exchanges and negotiations between different groups and on what can be learned through the "voices" of people in the bazaar: landholders, peasants, traders, and merchants. Along the way, Yang uncovers a wealth of details on the functioning of rural trade, markets, fairs, and pilgrimages in Bihar. A key contribution of Bazaar India is its many-stranded narrative history of some of South Asia's primary actors over the past two centuries. But Yang's approach is not that of a detached observer; rather, his own voice is engaged with the voices of the past and with present-day historians. By focusing on the world beyond the mud walls of the village, he widens the imaginative geography of South Asian history. Readers with an interest in markets, social history, culture, colonialism, British India, and historiographic methods will welcome his book.

Author : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OCLC:1039587261

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The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison Pdf