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Ritabrata Goswami
Diseases, Medicine and Healthcare in Colonial Bengal
Diseases, Medicine and Healthcare in Colonial Bengal
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- More about Diseases, Medicine and Healthcare in Colonial Bengal
This volume presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of disease, medicine, and healthcare in colonial Bengal, foregrounding the complex interactions between colonial power, indigenous knowledge systems, social practices, and the lived experiences of illness. Moving beyond a purely institutional history of medicine, it examines how epidemics cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, and fever shaped colonial governance, public health policies, and everyday life across the districts of Bengal.
Drawing on a rich array of archival sources, literary texts, missionary records, and local histories, the contributors analyse the coexistence and contestation between Western medicine and indigenous traditions including Ayurveda, Unani, folk healing, and homeopathy. Special attention is paid to marginal spaces and communities tribal groups, plantation labourers, industrial workers, women, and rural populations revealing how health and disease were deeply embedded in questions of labour, environment, gender, religion, and nationalism.
The book also highlights the role of medical institutions, missionaries, health propaganda, and public health measures in shaping colonial modernity. By situating medical practices within broader socio-economic and cultural contexts, this volume makes a significant contribution to the histories of medicine, colonialism, and South Asia, and will be valuable to historians, social scientists, and students alike.
Drawing on a rich array of archival sources, literary texts, missionary records, and local histories, the contributors analyse the coexistence and contestation between Western medicine and indigenous traditions including Ayurveda, Unani, folk healing, and homeopathy. Special attention is paid to marginal spaces and communities tribal groups, plantation labourers, industrial workers, women, and rural populations revealing how health and disease were deeply embedded in questions of labour, environment, gender, religion, and nationalism.
The book also highlights the role of medical institutions, missionaries, health propaganda, and public health measures in shaping colonial modernity. By situating medical practices within broader socio-economic and cultural contexts, this volume makes a significant contribution to the histories of medicine, colonialism, and South Asia, and will be valuable to historians, social scientists, and students alike.
- Publication date: 31 January 2026
- Page count: 359
- Dimensions: Height 230 mm; Width 150 mm
- Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN-13: 9789374518588
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