Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19

by David Arnold

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Covid-19 has given renewed, urgent attention to 'the pandemic' as a devastating, recurrent global phenomenon. Today the term is freely and widely used-but in reality, it has a long and contested history, centred on South Asia.

Pandemic India is an innovative enquiry into the emergence of the idea and changing meaning of pandemics, exploring the pivotal role played by-or assigned to-India over the past 200 years. Using the perspectives of the social historian and the historian of medicine, and a wide range of sources, it explains how and why past pandemics were so closely identified with South...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781787387096
  • Publish Date 5 May 2022
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English

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