Stories
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
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Hookah smoking in colonial Calcutta
Hookah smoking began in the royal courts of Mughal India, and like many other local customs, it was readily adopted by British colonials in the 18th century as a symbol of wealth and status.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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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.
Catalogue
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Colonial America / G.R.
Rosen, George, 1910-1977Date: 1940- Books
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Colonial and camp sanitation.
Poore, George Vivian, 1843-1904.Date: 1903- Books
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Colonial hospitals and lunatic asylums.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1864- Books
Colonial medical practice / Henry Woodhouse.
Woodhouse, Henry.Date: 1940- Books
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Colonial population / by Robert R. Kuczynski.
Kuczynski, Robert René, 1876-1947.Date: 1937