Arabinda Samanta: 2 books
Contesting Colonial Authority
Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
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...
by Arabinda Samanta
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Making epidemics in colonial Bengal as its entry point and drawing heavily on social, cultural and linguistic anthropology to understand the functions of health experiences, distribution of illness, prevention of sickness, social relations of therapeutic intervention and employment of pluralistic...