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Pande, Ishita 1976-

Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal symptoms of empire - London Routledge 2010 - x,257p. ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in South Asian history ; 5 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal -- Race and place -- Diagnosing character : liberal racialism and the black Aryan -- Standard deviation : "national character," phrenology and a science of government -- Blood and morals -- Seeing reason : dissection, history of medicine and English education -- City and citizenship -- Sanitary subjects : fevers, filth and freedom in a dual city -- Sensing modernity : civility, class and citizenship in a sanitary city -- Sex and public -- Degenerate nation : sex, public and a government of self -- Epilogue : Bengali modern.

ISBN: 9780415778152

LCCN: 2009008749

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA944557 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015174937 Uk 101528222 DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Medicine--History.--India--Bengal
Imperialism--History.
Delivery of Health Care--history--Great Britain.
Delivery of Health Care--history--India.
Colonialism--history--Great Britain.
Colonialism--history--India.
Health Policy--history--Great Britain.
Health Policy--history--India.
History, 19th Century--Great Britain.
History, 19th Century--India.
Politics--Great Britain.
Politics--India.
Race Relations--history--Great Britain.
Race Relations--history--India.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Bengal (India)--Race relations--History.
Bengal (India)--Politics and government.
Great Britain--Colonies--History.

LC Class. No.: R607.B46 / P36 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 362.10954 / PA-M

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2010 D-403 W 84 JI4 / P189m 2010