Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India

Family, Market and Homoeopathy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvShinjini Das

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Conceptualised in opposition to 'orthodox' medicine, homoeopathy, a western medical project originating in eighteenth-century Germany, was reconstituted as vernacular medicine in British Bengal. India went on to become the home of the largest population of users of homoeopathic medicine in the world. Combining insights from the history of colonial medicine and the cultural histories of family in British India, Shinjini Das examines the processes through which western homoeopathy was translated and indigenised in the colony as a specific Hindu worldview, an economic vision and a disciplining regimen. In tracing the localisation of German homoeopathy in a British Indian province, this book analyses interactions between Calcutta-based homoeopathic family firms, disparate contributors to the Bengali print market, the British colonial state and emergent nationalist governments. The history of homoeopathy in Bengal reveals myriad negotiations undertaken by the colonised peoples to reshape scientific modernity in the subcontinent.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-03-14
Mått159 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt640 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108420624

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Introduction: 'A growing scandal under British rule': families, market and the vernacular; 1. A heterodoxy between institutions: bureaucracy, print-market and family firms; 2. A family of biographies: colonial lives of a Western heterodoxy; 3. A science in translation: medicine, language, identity; 4. Healing the home: indigeneity, self-help and the Hindu joint family; 5. Colonial law, electoral politics and a homeopathic public; Epilogue: a familiar science.

'This remarkable book opens up radical new perspectives on the contested categories of family, empire, nation and commerce in relation to science and medicine. In a nuanced and sophisticated analysis, Shinjini Das has provided a turning point in the debate about forms of knowledge too often dismissed as 'alternative' or 'popular'. Exploring a fascinating world of medical entrepreneurs, journalists and domestic practitioners, Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India is essential reading for anyone interested in the translation of knowledge across contexts and continents.' James Secord, University of Cambridge