This book analyses the interface between medicine and colonial society through the lens of gender. The work traces the growth of hospital medicine in nineteenth

The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy

This book shows how medical care was introduced, expanded, and funded by the colonial state. Intent on limiting medical expenditure, the colonial state created

Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.

This volume analyses the interface between medicine and colonial society through the lens of gender. The author deals with a number of issues like women's healt