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Missionaries and Their Medicine: A Christian Modernity for Tribal India

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Missionaries and Their Medicine: A Christian Modernity for Tribal India

Contributors:

By (Author) David Hardiman

ISBN:

9780719095399

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

Imprint:

Manchester University Press

Publication Date:

2nd September 2014

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Dewey:

266.009540904

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

288

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 234mm

Description

Missionaries and their medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. The study is informed by a deep knowledge of the people amongst whom the missionaries worked, the author having lived for extensive periods in the tribal tracts of western India. He argues that the Bhils were never the passive objects of missionary attention and that they created for themselves their own form of 'Christian modernity.' The book provides a major intervention in the history of colonial medicine, as Hardiman argues that missionary medicine had a specific quality of its own - which he describes and analyses in detail - and that in most cases it was preferred to the medicine of colonial states. He also examines the period of transition to Indian independence, which was a highly fraught and uncertain process for the missionaries. -- .

Author Bio

David Hardiman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick

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