Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
by
Poonam Bala, Madhulika Banerjee, Cristiana Bastos
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new...