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Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940

Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk

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  • © 2012

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  1. Sandhya L. Polu
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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Sandhya L. Polu
    Pages 1-25

  3. All Eyes on India

    • Sandhya L. Polu
    Pages 26-49

  4. Plague and Cholera — The Epidemic versus the Endemic

    • Sandhya L. Polu
    Pages 50-81

  5. Malaria — India’s True Plague

    • Sandhya L. Polu
    Pages 82-118

  6. From Panama to Khartoum — Yellow Fever Inches Closer to Home

    • Sandhya L. Polu
    Pages 119-139

  7. Disease as Prism

    • Sandhya L. Polu
    Pages 140-157

  8. Epilogue: Swine Flu Redux

    • Sandhya L. Polu
    Pages 158-162

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 163-229
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Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.

About the author

SANDHYA POLU is currently Special Aide to the United States Ambassador to Italy at the US Embassy in Rome, Italy. Prior to this appointment, she worked at the Tauri Group, advising the US Department of Defense on international biosecurity policies. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University and a B.A. in History from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Italy.

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