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Rohan Deb Roy argues that British imperial rule occasioned the attribution of medical properties to a range of nonhuman entities including plants, quinine, and mosquitoes in nineteenth-century India. Malarial Subjects is a major new contribution to science studies and the histories of the British Empire, colonial medicine and South Asia. This title is also available as Open Access.

Showcases recent work on the history of medicine in colonial and postcolonial South Asia~Explores how the medical was defined and put to use in specific historical contexts~Engages histories of archives, governance, law, religion, substances, sexuality, and technology, with histories health, disease and viscera~Includes perspectives on various parts of South Asia including Andaman, Burma, and Ladakh

This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.