Contagion and Enclaves : Tropical Medicine in Colonial India.
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 glob...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Series
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781781386361 |