The book maps developments in public health, the emergence of specialised
medical institutions, the influence of western medicine on indigenous medical
communities (and their patients) and the interaction between them. Two
comparatively large states (Mysore and Travancore), considered a progressivea
(TM) and a enlighteneda (TM), and some of the 24 Orissa Princely States, seen as
a backwarda (TM) and a despotica (TM), will be at the centre of investigation.
Contentious issues currently debated in the existing scholarship on medicine in
British India and other colonies will be explored (such as the a indigenisationa
(TM) of health services; the inter-relationship of colonial and indigenous
paradigms of medical practice; the