Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India
In: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Ser. v.10
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.