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The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman

How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.

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The colonist who faced the blue terror

India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.

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Vivekananda’s journey

How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.

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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

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  • Indian (cinchona plantation?) workers: men, women and children in front of a hut, Bengal, India (?). Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).
  • The Munsong cinchona plantation, Kalimpong, Bengal, India: scraping cinchona bark (used to produce the anti-malarial drug quinine) from a tree; an Indian man in a turban and an Indian boy. Photograph, 1905/1920 (?).
  • The Munsong cinchona plantation, Kalimpong, Bengal, India: Cinchona succirubra trees (used in production of the anti-malarial drug quinine); a plantation worker stands in front of the trees holding a large container. Photograph, 1905/1920 (?).
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites (Bengali version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • Sowing cinchona seeds in a nursery bed, Munsong plantation.
  • An ursine sloth lying in a meadow. Coloured etching.
  • Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive. Mezzotint by C. Corbutt after T. Gainsborough.
  • Mosque at Gaur, West Bengal. Etching by James Moffat after Henry Creighton, ca. 1808.
  • Pilgrims with roses worship a snake shrine while a Brahmin priest and attendants pray during a snake festival. Gouache drawing.
  • Pilgrims with roses worship a snake shrine while a Brahmin priest and attendants pray during a snake festival. Gouache drawing.
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