Missionaries and their medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of
the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal
community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. The study is
informed by a deep knowledge of the people amongst whom the
missionaries worked, the author having lived for extensive periods
in the tribal tracts of western India. He argues that the Bhils
were never the passive objects of missionary attention and that
they created for themselves their own form of 'Christian
modernity.' The book provides a major intervention in the history
of colonial medicine, as Hardiman argues that missionary medicine
had a specific quality of its own - which he describes and analyses
in detail - and that in most cases it was preferred to the medicine
of colonial states. He also examines the period of transition to
Indian independence, which was a highly fraught and uncertain
process for the missionaries. -- .
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