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OverviewPoonam 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Poonam Bala , Poonam Bala , Madhulika Banerjee , Cristiana BastosPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9780739170236ISBN 10: 0739170236 Pages: 186 Publication Date: 12 April 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 ContributorsReviewsA 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, University of Sydney This edited collection represents scholastically rich contextual history of the encounters between civilizations and their artifacts such as medical systems. -- K. R. Nayar, Jawaharlal Nehru University Author InformationPoonam Bala is currently visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Cleveland State University, Ohio. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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