Saurabh Mishra

Beastly encounters of the Raj (eBook, PDF)

Livelihoods, livestock and veterinary health in North India, 1790-1920

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first full-length monograph to examine the history of colonial medicine in India from the perspective of veterinary health. The history of human health in the subcontinent has received a fair amount of attention in the last few decades, but nearly all existing texts have completely ignored the question of animal health. This book will not only fill this gap, but also provide fresh perspectives and insights that might challenge existing arguments. At the same time, this volume is a social history of cattle in India. Keeping the question of livestock at the centre, it explores a range of themes such as famines, agrarian relations, urbanisation, middle-class attitudes, caste formations etc. The overall aim is to integrate medical history with social history in a way that has not often been attempted.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780719098017
• Artikelnr.: 60362635

Autorenporträt

Saurabh Mishra is Lecturer in History at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I Veterinary Health and the Colonial State 1. Horse Breeding and the Ideologies of the Early Colonial State 2. Beasts
Murrains and Veterinary Health 3. Ticks
Germs and Bacteriological Research Part II Caste
Class and Cattle 4. Cattle
Famines and the Colonial State 5. Food Adulteration
Public Health and Middle Class Anxieties 6. Cattle-Poisoning and the Chamar Identity Conclusion Bibliography Index