Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. The Indian medical service; 2. Tropical hygiene: disease theory and prevention in nineteenth-century India; 3. The foundations of public health in India: crisis and constraint; 4. Cholera theory and sanitary policy; 5. Quarantine, pilgrimage, and colonial trade: India 1866–1900; 6. Professional visions and political realities, 1896–1914; 7. Public health and local self-government; 8. The politics of health in Calcutta, 1876–1899; Conclusion.

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An examination of medicine's role in the consolidation of colonial rule in the Indian Raj.

Reviews

"A scholarly, extensively researched, well-annotated, and amply referenced work, and a valuable resource." Choice

"Public Health in British India is a commendable work marked by its substantial scholarly apparatus -- fifty pages of notes, extensive utilization of primary sources, several graphs, and illustrations....this is a work of solid scholarship and should spawn historiographic research in the British colonial context. It is highly recommended for scholars and students of the Indian colonial history of preventive medicine." The Annals of the American Academy

"[Harrison's] arguments are well made and well supported by an impressive range of sources from contemporary medical journals to memoirs...The result is a solid contribution to the history of health and of imperialism." Histoire sociale