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Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire - Routledge Studies in South Asian History Pande, Ishita (Queen's University, Canada) 1st edition
Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire - Routledge Studies in South Asian History
Pande, Ishita (Queen's University, Canada)
This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in colonial India. Tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, the book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism.
272 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 29, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415627542 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 262 |
| Dimensions | 232 × 156 × 15 mm · 406 g |
| Language | English |