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Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India - Family, Market and Homoeopathy (Hardcover)
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Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India - Family, Market and Homoeopathy (Hardcover)
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Conceptualised in opposition to 'orthodox' medicine, homoeopathy, a
western medical project originating in eighteenth-century Germany,
was reconstituted as vernacular medicine in British Bengal. India
went on to become the home of the largest population of users of
homoeopathic medicine in the world. Combining insights from the
history of colonial medicine and the cultural histories of family
in British India, Shinjini Das examines the processes through which
western homoeopathy was translated and indigenised in the colony as
a specific Hindu worldview, an economic vision and a disciplining
regimen. In tracing the localisation of German homoeopathy in a
British Indian province, this book analyses interactions between
Calcutta-based homoeopathic family firms, disparate contributors to
the Bengali print market, the British colonial state and emergent
nationalist governments. The history of homoeopathy in Bengal
reveals myriad negotiations undertaken by the colonised peoples to
reshape scientific modernity in the subcontinent.
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