Contagion and Enclaves
Tropical Medicine in Colonial India
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
219 pages
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6 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2012
Contagion and Enclaves examines the social history of medicine across two intersecting British enclaves in the major tea-producing region of colonial India: the hill station of Darjeeling and the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal. Focusing on the establishment of hill sanatoria and other health care facilities and practices against the backdrop of the expansion of tea cultivation and labor migration, it tracks the demographic and environmental transformation of the region and the critical role race and medicine played in it, showing that the British enclaves were essential and distinctive sites of the articulation of colonial power and economy.
Mark Harrison, University of Leicester
“Combining original observations with very sophisticated arguments, written both clearly and elegantly, this makes an important contribution to the field.”
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Disease and Colonial Enclaves
2. The Sanatorium of Darjeeling: European Health in a Tropical Enclave
3. Pioneering Years in Plantation and Medicine in Darjeeling, Terai and Duars
4. The Sanatorium Enclave: Climate and Class in Colonial Darjeeling
5. Contending Visions of Health Care in the Plantation Enclaves
6. The Plantation Enclave, the Colonial State and Labour Health Care
7. Tropical Medicine in Its ‘Field’: Malaria, Hookworm and the Rhetoric of the ‘Local’
8. Habitation and Health in Colonial Enclaves: The Hill-station and the Tea plantations
Bibliography
Index
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