Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of a disease, it is also a history of colonial power in 19th-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers. The book 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.
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Jane Buckingham is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
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During the nineteenth century, British understanding of leprosy and of the India leprosy sufferer underwent considerable change. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gurjon oil, chaulmugra oil, leprosy sufferers, leprosy committee, leprosy investigation, leprosy care, endemic skin, scientific medical culture, anaesthetic leprosy, tubercular leprosy, leprosy treatment, siddha medicine, leprosy research, anaesthetic form, leprosy asylums, leprosy cure, medical superiority, leper hospital, leprosy hospital, sanitary department, indigenous medicine, compulsory confinement, sanitary commissioner, leprosy control, indigenous medical systems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Government of India, Royal College of Physicians, Leprosy Commission, Monegar Choultry, Native Infirmary, Colonial Office, Palliport Lazaretto, Port Blair, East India Company, Indian Medical Service, National Leprosy Fund, Royal Commission, Subbarao Pantulu, General Hospital, Need Society, Roman Catholic, Sanitary Commission, European Vagrancy Act, Indian Medical Gazette, Madras Mahajana Sabha, Madras Medical Service, Whitelaw Ainslie, Imperial Act, North Arcot, Maclean's Glossary New!
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During the nineteenth century, British understanding of leprosy and of the India leprosy sufferer underwent considerable change. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gurjon oil, chaulmugra oil, leprosy sufferers, leprosy committee, leprosy investigation, leprosy care, endemic skin, scientific medical culture, anaesthetic leprosy, tubercular leprosy, leprosy treatment, siddha medicine, leprosy research, anaesthetic form, leprosy asylums, leprosy cure, medical superiority, leper hospital, leprosy hospital, sanitary department, indigenous medicine, compulsory confinement, sanitary commissioner, leprosy control, indigenous medical systems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Government of India, Royal College of Physicians, Leprosy Commission, Monegar Choultry, Native Infirmary, Colonial Office, Palliport Lazaretto, Port Blair, East India Company, Indian Medical Service, National Leprosy Fund, Royal Commission, Subbarao Pantulu, General Hospital, Need Society, Roman Catholic, Sanitary Commission, European Vagrancy Act, Indian Medical Gazette, Madras Mahajana Sabha, Madras Medical Service, Whitelaw Ainslie, Imperial Act, North Arcot, Maclean's Glossary New!
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- Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies (Studies in Imperialism) by David Arnold in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault on page 35, and Back Matter
- Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature (Handbuch Der Orientalistik, Erganzungsband 5) by Kamil V. Zvelebil in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Aryan Medical Science by H. Jee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The History of Public Health and the Modern State (Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 26) (Clio Medica ; 26) by Dorothy Porter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories) by Rod Edmond in Front Matter, and page 62
- Gender and Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion) by Philippa Levine on page 129
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