Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India

by Poonam Bala (Editor), Poonam Bala (Contribution by), Madhulika Banerjee (Contribution by), Cristiana Bastos (Contribution by), Shrimoy Roy Chaudhary (Contribution by)

Overview

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 social character of Indian Medicine. Viewed in the light of the cultural, nationalistic, social, literary and scientific essentials, Contesting Colonial Authority highlights various indigenous interpretations and mechanisms through which Indian sciences and medicine were projected against the cultural background of a rich medical tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739170236
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	04/12/2012
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Poonam Balais currently visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Cleveland State University, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. ‘Nationalizing’ Medicine by Poonam Bala
2. Teaching European Medicine in Colonial Goa by Cristiana Bastos
3. Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals by Madhulika Banerjee
4. Corporal Contestations by Shrimoy Roy Chaudhary
5. Colonial Medicine and Elite Nationalist Responses in India by Shamshad Khan
6. Colonial Compassion and Political Calculation by Sean Lang
7. Educating Lady Doctors in Colonial Burma by Atsuko Naono
8. Unani Medical Culture by Neshat Quaiser
9. Malarial Fever in Nineteenth-Century Bengal by Arabinda Samanta
Index
About the Contributors

What People are Saying About This

Tim Allender

A masterly set of international essays that richly explore, at different sub-continental colonial sites, the neglected paradigm of medicine to exemplify the nature of knowledge transfer, with all of its filigreed cultural and socio-political implications. A must read for those interested in reconfiguring assessments of the colonial relationship.

K.R. Nayar

This edited collection represents scholastically rich contextual history of the encounters between civilizations and their artifacts such as medical systems.

Editorial Reviews

This book is a welcome addition to the ongoing debate around colonial authority and contesting its mechanisms of power.

Traditional South Asian Medicine

The dynamics of the alternative medical models issuing from the complex colonial encounters are more clearly perceived through case studies as diverse as the ones included in this volume, which comprehends lesser-known colonial contexts.. . .Furthermore, it summarizes discussions developed by its contributors in other works, showing in a clear and interesting way the dynamics of the authoritative models in the making but also the permanent challenges they faced.

Isis

This edited collection.. . .will appeal to students and researchers seeking to explore the various contours of the history of colonial medical contestations.

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

A masterly set of international essays that richly explore, at different sub-continental colonial sites, the neglected paradigm of medicine to exemplify the nature of knowledge transfer, with all of its filigreed cultural and socio-political implications. A must read for those interested in reconfiguring assessments of the colonial relationship.

Tim Allender

This edited collection represents scholastically rich contextual history of the encounters between civilizations and their artifacts such as medical systems.

K. R. Nayar