Chakrabarti, Pratik (2009) “Signs of the Times”: Medicine and Nationhood in British India. Osiris, 24 . pp. 188-211. ISSN 0369-7827. (doi:10.1086/605975) (KAR id:25530)
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Abstract
Medical practice and research in colonial India historically had been an imperial preserve, dominated by the elite members of the Indian Medical Service. This was
contested from the 1900s on by the emerging Indian nationalism. This essay studies debates about the establishment of a medical research institution and how actors imposed the political identities of nationalism on British colonial practices of medical science. At the same time, Indian nationalism was also drawing from other emerging ideas around health and social welfare. The Indian nationalists and doctors sought to build the identities of the new nation and its medicine around their
own ideas of its geography, people, and welfare.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1086/605975 |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of History |
| Funders: | Wellcome Trust (https://ror.org/029chgv08) |
| Depositing User: | Pratik Chakrabarti |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2010 19:42 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:05 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/25530 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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