A Historical Study Of Malaria In Bengal 1860 1920
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A Historical Study Of Malaria In Bengal 1860 1920
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Author : Ihtesham Kazi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
A Historical Study Of Malaria In Bengal 1860 1920 written by Ihtesham Kazi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Malaria categories.
Malaria In Colonial South Asia
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Author : Sheila Zurbrigg
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2019-08-28
Malaria In Colonial South Asia written by Sheila Zurbrigg and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-28 with History categories.
This book highlights the role of acute hunger in malaria lethality in colonial South Asia and investigates how this understanding came to be lost in modern medical, epidemic, and historiographic thought. Using the case studies of colonial Punjab, Sri Lanka, and Bengal, it traces the loss of fundamental concepts and language of hunger in the inter-war period with the reductive application of the new specialisms of nutritional science and immunology, and a parallel loss of the distinction between infection (transmission) and morbid disease. The study locates the final demise of the ‘Human Factor’ (hunger) in malaria history within pre- and early post-WW2 international health institutions – the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation and the nascent WHO’s Expert Committee on Malaria. It examines the implications of this epistemic shift for interpreting South Asian health history, and reclaims a broader understanding of common endemic infection (endemiology) as a prime driver, in the context of subsistence precarity, of epidemic mortality history and demographic change. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of public health, social medicine and social epidemiology, imperial history, epidemic and demographic history, history of medicine, medical sociology, and sociology.
Epidemic Malaria And Hunger In Colonial Punjab
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Author : Sheila Zurbrigg
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2018-12-12
Epidemic Malaria And Hunger In Colonial Punjab written by Sheila Zurbrigg and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-12 with History categories.
This book documents the primary role of acute hunger (semi- and frank starvation) in the ‘fulminant’ malaria epidemics that repeatedly afflicted the northwest plains of British India through the first half of colonial rule. Using Punjab vital registration data and regression analysis it also tracks the marked decline in annual malaria mortality after 1908 with the control of famine, despite continuing post-monsoonal malaria transmission across the province. The study establishes a time-series of annual malaria mortality estimates for each of the 23 plains districts of colonial Punjab province between 1868 and 1947 and for the early post-Independence years (1948-60) in (East) Punjab State. It goes on to investigate the political imperatives motivating malaria policy shifts on the part of the British Raj. This work reclaims the role of hunger in Punjab malaria mortality history and, in turn, raises larger epistemic questions regarding the adequacy of modern concepts of nutrition and epidemic causation in historical and demographic analysis. Part of The Social History of Health and Medicine in South Asia series, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of colonial history, modern history, social medicine, social anthropology and public health.
A Local History Of Global Capital
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Author : Tariq Omar Ali
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
A Local History Of Global Capital written by Tariq Omar Ali and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital. Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity; and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century. A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal delta's peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation.
Living With Epidemics In Colonial Bengal
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Author : Arabinda Samanta
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-09
Living With Epidemics In Colonial Bengal written by Arabinda Samanta and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-09 with Social Science categories.
Making epidemics in colonial Bengal as its entry point and drawing heavily on social, cultural and linguistic anthropology to understand the functions of health experiences, distribution of illness, prevention of sickness, social relations of therapeutic intervention and employment of pluralistic medical systems, the book interrogates the social construction of medical knowledge, politics of science, and the changing paradigm of relationship between health of the individual and the prerogatives of larger colonial economic formations. Smallpox, plague, cholera and malaria which visited colonial Bengal with epidemic vengeance, caught the people unaware, killed them in thousands, and changed the society and its demographic structures. The book shows how sometimes through mutual adaptation but more often by cultural contestation, people pulled on with their microbial fellow travellers, and how illness became metaphor for the social dangers of improper code of conduct, to be corrected only through personal expropriation of the sin committed, or by community worship of the deity supposedly responsible for it. As a result, Western medical science was often relegated to the background, and elaborate rites and rituals, supposedly having curative values, came to the forefront and were observed with much community fanfare. Epidemics were also interpreted as outcome of politically incorrect moves made by the ruling power. To right the wrongs, people very often resorted to social protest. The protest by the literati went sometimes muted when its members seem to be beneficiaries of the colonial government, but it turned out to be all the more violent when the people, who had no private axe to grind, took up the cudgel to fight it out.
The Bengal Delta
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Author : I. Iqbal
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-10-20
The Bengal Delta written by I. Iqbal and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-20 with History categories.
With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.
India S Railway History
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Author : John Hurd II
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-08-03
India S Railway History written by John Hurd II and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-03 with History categories.
India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and post-colonial, of these railways. The secondary literature is identified and surveyed, primary sources and their locations identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed and presented, and a massive bibliography made available. This handbook is the indispensable tool for anyone seeking to understand India's railways and the roles they played in the making of modern India.
Contagion And Enclaves
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Author : Nandini Bhattacharya
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-20
Contagion And Enclaves written by Nandini Bhattacharya and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-20 with History categories.
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.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Dissertation Abstracts International written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Dissertations, Academic categories.
Historical Abstracts
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Historical Abstracts written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History, Modern categories.