Contesting colonial authority : medicine and indigenous responses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India / edited by Poonam Bala

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Nationalizing" Medicine; 2 Teaching European Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Goa; 3 Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals; 4 Corporal Contestations; 5 Colonial Medicine and Elite Nationalist Responses in India; 6 Colonial Compassion and Political Calculation; 7 Educating Lady Doctors in Colonial Burma; 8 Unani Medical Culture; 9 Malarial Fever in Nineteenth-Century Bengal; Index; About the Contributors.

Poonam Bala's Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian Medicine.