Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal (Routledge Studies in South Asian History)

by IshitaPande (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $151.48

  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, this book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism.