Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
EDITOR – Poonam Bala
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This volume explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India and highlights various indigenous interpretations and mechanisms through which Indian medicine was re-visited against the cultural background of established medical traditions. Manifested in the encounters between Indian and Western medicine and colonial dictates, these interpretations led to the emergence of new structural forms, which were as much ‘paradigms of defence’ as sites of negotiation for these encounters. The essays in this volume reflect upon these structural representations validated through colonial discourse on female education, nationalizing Indian medicine, strategies of memory and representation and through expressions of non-compliance in various health measures, enabling a relocation of the trajectory of Western medicine and reconfiguration of medical knowledge.
The Editor
Poonam Bala is currently a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Nominated as a Fellow and formerly a Visiting Professor at UNISA, South Africa, her select publications include Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective, Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa, and Biomedicine as a Contested Site.
This volume explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India and highlights various indigenous interpretations and mechanisms through which Indian medicine was re-visited against the cultural background of established medical traditions. Manifested in the encounters between Indian and Western medicine and colonial dictates, these interpretations led to the emergence of new structural forms, which were as much ‘paradigms of defence’ as sites of negotiation for these encounters. The essays in this volume reflect upon these structural representations validated through colonial discourse on female education, nationalizing Indian medicine, strategies of memory and representation and through expressions of non-compliance in various health measures, enabling a relocation of the trajectory of Western medicine and reconfiguration of medical knowledge.
The Editor
Poonam Bala is currently a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Nominated as a Fellow and formerly a Visiting Professor at UNISA, South Africa, her select publications include Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective, Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa, and Biomedicine as a Contested Site.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ix |
| Introduction Poonam Bala |
xi-xvii |
| 1. ‘Nationalizing’ Medicine: The Changing Paradigm of Ayurveda in British India Poonam Bala |
1-12 |
| 2. Teaching European Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Goa: Local and Colonial Agendas Cristiana Bastos |
13-29 |
| 3. Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals: Contesting Economic Hegemony Madhulika Banerjee |
31-51 |
| 4. Corporal Contestations: A Fragmentary History of British Indian Medical Improvement, 1836-1913 Shrimoy Roy Chaudhury |
53-70 |
| 5. Colonial Medicine and Elite Nationalist Responses in India: Conformity and Contradictions Shamshad Khan |
71-82 |
| 6. Colonial Compassion and Political Calculation: The Countess of Dufferin and Her Fund Sean Lang |
83-98 |
| 7. Educating Lady Doctors in Colonial Burma: Missionaries, the Lady Dufferin Hospital, and the Local Government in the Making of Burmese Medical Women Atsuko Naono |
99-116 |
| 8. Unani Medical Culture: Memory, Representation, and the Literate Critical Anticolonial Public Sphere Neshat Quaiser |
117-136 |
| 9. Malarial Fever in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: Revisiting the Prophylactic Intervention Arabinda Samanta |
137-152 |
| Index | 153-155 |
| Notes on Contributors | 157-158 |