Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India

Biswamoy Pati was Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and taught Modern Indian History at the Department of History, University of Delhi, India. His research is on the diversities of colonial South Asia and some of his books include Resisting Domination: Peasants, Tribals and the National Movement on Orissa, 1920-1950 (1993) and South Asia from the Margins: Echoes of Orissa, 1800-2000 (2012). He edited The 1857 Rebellion (2007); and co-edited (with Mark Harrison) Health, Medicine and Empire (2001) and The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (2009); and (with Waltraud Ernst) India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism (2007).Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK. He has written widely on the history of medicine in relation to war, medicine and imperialism. His publications include Public Health in British India (1994); Climates and Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment and British Imperialism in India 1600-1850 (1999); Medicine in an Age of Commerce and Empire: Britain and Its Tropical Colonies 1660-1830 (2010); Contagion (2011); several edited volumes; and Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India (2001) and The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (2009) both co-edited with Biswamoy Pati.