Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British

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Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909

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PublisherCambridge University Press
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139781316623619
PublishedFeb 17 2020
Dimension9.02 X 5.98 X 0.73 inches
Weight 1.03 pounds
BISACMedical > History
Categories(Single Author) Asian American
LanguageEnglish

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Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy to impotence. And yet, it was not a self-contained category. The reconsolidation of malaria as a diagnostic category during this period happened within a wider context in which cinchona plants and their most valuable extract, quinine, were reinforced as objects of natural knowledge and social control. In India, the exigencies and apparatuses of British imperial rule occasioned the close interactions between these histories. In the process, British imperial rule became entangled with a network of nonhumans that included, apart from cinchona plants and the drug quinine, a range of objects described as malarial, as well as mosquitoes. Malarial Subjects explores this history of the co-constitution of a cure and disease, of British colonial rule and nonhumans, and of science, medicine and empire. This title is also available as Open Access.

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I am Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Reading (2015-present). I am particularly interested in the histories of science and medicine, histories of empire and colonialism, environmental history, and animal history. I

am the author of Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) and co-editor (with Guy Attewell) of Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018). I have put together a co-edited special issue on "Nonhuman Empires" (with Sujit Sivasundaram) for the journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, (35.1, May 2015).

I received my PhD from University College London (2009), and have held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta (2009-2010), at the University of Cambridge (2011-2013), and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2013-2015).

I have been a Barnard-Columbia Weiss International Visiting Scholar in the History of Science.

Research Interests

colonial and postcolonial South Asia
British imperialism in the Indian subcontinent more generally
animal history
the history of imperial science and colonial medicine
environmental history of the British Empire
comparative histories of hunger and famines

Source: University of Reading

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