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Contributors, Michael <mgmann hotmail.com> Published on 22/05/2009 citation classification Regional Focus India Epochal assignment Modern History (1789-1914), 20th Century thematic focus of political history and science, colonial active foam history and decolonization, social history and sciences, history of science, history of medicine active foam type compilations Country United Kingdom Language English
Title: The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India, 1940s-1850 Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History Publisher: Pati, Biswamoy; Harrison, Mark Location: London Publisher: Routledge Year: 2009 ISBN: 978-0-415 - 46231-0 scope / price: 241 p; 99.67
In the 1980s, first appeared a few, albeit basic works on medical history of British India. [1] Especially in the decade before the turn of the millennium the medicine of the British colonial regime then learned an increased interest on the part of academic research, [2] and then the editor of the book to be discussed already made in 2001 carefully. [3] Meanwhile, active foam the two editors in their introduction to this anthology, I have this growth further active foam strengthened, with the proportion active foam of theses is highlighted (p. 1). Compared to the first rather broad brush strokes the feinstrichigen and in-depth analyzes of current studies now would be noticeable. Sense of the present anthology is therefore to present an income of such recent research. The fact that the posts can not be sorted into meaningful categories, but appear in a rather indiscriminate ranking which is not surprising in these circumstances.
Sarubh Mishra's article "Beyond the bounds of time? The Haj pilgrimage from the Indian subcontinent, 1865-1920 "examines the impact of colonial health active foam policy and medical prophylaxis in the context of the annual pilgrimage of Indian active foam Muslims to Mecca. He refutes the colonial historical-essentialist active foam assumption that the pilgrimage had not changed over the centuries. On the contrary, in the light of the middle of the 19th Century held international health conferences is clear that the annual pilgrimage increasingly fell into the perspectives of the public. Cholera and Pestausbrüche in Bombay in the last two decades of the 19th Century and collected by the European colonial powers doubts about the British health policy in India forced the local colonial regime to take preventive measures, which meant profound changes for the pilgrims.
Strictly guided Passenger Lists, prophylactic partly week-long quarantine, the extreme loads applied to the pilgrims on the ships and in the collection camps with them, physical examinations, often pushed to the limits of what is reasonable, and the inspection of vessels from the medical point subjugated the once purely religiously motivated pilgrimage a grid of health policy studies and thus state control. Travel diaries affected pilgrims document the sometimes humiliating, but in any case time-and active foam nerve-racking active foam actions that were on top of everything associated with additional costs. active foam As part of the politicization of Islam around the turn of the 20th Century and the pilgrimage to Mecca was placed in a political context in which it was necessary to exercise with the help of medical preventive political control over the increasingly defined as a political religion of the Muslims of British India.
Amna Khalid, in her article active foam "'subordinate' Negotiations. Indigenous staff, the colonial state and public health show "that police powers were extended to more and more areas as the medical control at the outbreak of epidemics and the prostitutes in the course of pilgrimages in British India. In particular, the lower ranks of the police, which were occupied by Indians, were indispensable staff under colonial administrative monitoring especially in rural areas. Thus, it was also due to the access of police to broad sections of the population, the police reform, which occupied the non-local personnel, in favor of the old system, which recruited the police forces from local families, canceled again. Ultimately, this was the conclusion, whether the police kolonia not an innocent victim