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020			_a9781349960149
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100			_aBuckingham, Jane.
245			_aLeprosy in Colonial South India Medicine and Confinement
250			_a1st South Asian Edition
260			_aNew York : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2020
500			_aLeprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and dramatic endemic disease, it is a history of colonial power in nineteenth-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers in south India. Leprosy in Colonial South India offers a detailed examination of the contribution of leprosy treatment and legislative measures to negotiated relationships between indigenous and British medicine and the colonial impact on indigenous class formation, while asserting the agency of the poor and vagrant leprous classes in their own history.
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