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Contagion and Enclaves
Nandini Bhattacharya
其他書名
Tropical Medicine in Colonial India
出版Liverpool University Press, 2012-01-01
主題History / Asia / South / GeneralMedical / Diseases
ISBN18463182979781846318290
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=49B1d1e6aTsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. 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. This book studies the
demographic and environmental transformation of the region: the racialization of urban spaces and its contestations, establishment of hill sanatoria, expansion of tea cultivation, labour emigration and the paternalistic modes of healthcare in the plantation. It examines how the threat of epidemics
and riots informed the conflictual relationship between the plantations with the adjacent agricultural villages and district towns.