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Contagion and Enclaves - Tropical Medicine in Colonial India (Hardcover)
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Contagion and Enclaves - Tropical Medicine in Colonial India (Hardcover)
Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 10
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. Colonialism created
exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the
exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the
form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil
lines and new urban centres for Europeans. 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. This book studies the demographic and
environmental transformation of the region: the racialization of
urban spaces and its contestations, establishment of hill
sanatoria, expansion of tea cultivation, labour emigration and the
paternalistic modes of healthcare in the plantation. It examines
how the threat of epidemics and riots informed the conflictual
relationship between the plantations with the adjacent agricultural
villages and district towns. It reveals how Tropical Medicine was
practised in its 'field'; researches in malaria, hookworm,
dysentery, cholera and leprosy were informed by investigations
here, and the exigencies of the colonial state, private
entrepreneurship, and municipal governance subverted their
implementation. Contagion and Enclaves establishes the vital link
between medicine, the political economy and the social history of
colonialism. It demonstrates that while enclaves were essential and
distinctive sites of articulation of colonial power and economy,
they were not isolated sites. The book shows that the critical
aspect of the enclaves was in their interconnectedness; with other
enclaves, with the global economy and international medical
research.
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