Contagion and Enclaves

Contagion and Enclaves
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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9781781386361
ISBN-13 : 1781386366
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Book Synopsis Contagion and Enclaves by : Nandini Bhattacharya

Download or read book Contagion and Enclaves written by Nandini Bhattacharya and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of the British Raj; and in the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal, which produced tea for the global market.


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