Society, medicine and politics in colonial India / edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

xi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

The sentencing of assisted suicide in the Nizamut Adawlut, 1810-1829: religion , health and gender in the formation of British Indian Criminal law -- 2. The great shift: cholera theory and sanitary policy in Brithish India, 1867-1879 -- 3. Hakims and Haiza: unami medicine and cholera in late Colonial India -- 4. Of cholera, colonialism and pilgrimage sites: rethinking popular responses to state sanitation, c.1867-1900 -- 5. Western science, indigenous medicine and the princely states: the case of Ayurvedic reorganization in Travancore, 1870-1940 -- 6. Christian missionary women's hospital in Mysore state, c.1880-1930 -- 7. The epidemiological, health and medical aspects of famine: views from the Madras Presidency (1876-78) -- 8. Gender and insanity: situating asylums in nineteenth - century Bengal -- 9. Confining 'lunatics' : the Cuttck Asylum, c.1864-1906 -- 10. What did the "wise man" say? Gender, sexuality and women's helath nineteenh - century Bengal -- 11. Feminizing empire: the Association of Medical Women in India and the campaign for a women's medical service -- 12. India phisicians and public health challenges: Bombay Presidency, 1896-1920 -- 13 Tracking kala-azar: the East Indian experience and experients.

Includes bibliographical references and index.