Contagion and Enclaves : Tropical Medicine in Colonial India.
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- Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Ser. ; v.10 .
- Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Ser. .
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.