Book Review – Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India

Madhuri Sharma, Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India, Foundation Books, Delhi, 2012, 177 pages, Rs. 695/-

Discourses on health and medicine in colonial India were never isolated. Rather, these often got intertwined with several other discourses on caste, class, gender, religion, nationalism and so on. However, for quite a long time, historians working on the history of health and medicine in India remained pre-occupied with either exploring colonial motives of the introduction of western medicine in India or probing different aspects and contradictions of the consequent nationalist efforts of medical revivalism.