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

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. Nationalizing medicine / Poonam Bala Teaching European medicine in Colonial Goa / Cristiana Bastos Ayurvedic pharmaceuticals / Madhulika Banerjee Corporal contestations / Shrimoy Roy Chaudhary Colonial medicine and elite nationalist responses in India / Shamshad Khan Colonial compassion and political calculation / Sean Lang Educating lady doctors in Colonial Burma / Atsuko Naono Unani medical culture / Neshat Quaiser Malarial fever in nineteent-century Bengal / Arabinda Samanta.