| ID | 160158 |
| Title Proper | Diseased plantations |
| Other Title Information | Law and the political economy of health in Assam, 1860–1920 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | DEY, ARNAB |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article argues that ideas of health and disease in the Assam tea plantations of northeastern India exceeded instrumental logics of bodily disorder, medical ‘objectivity’, and preventive cure. It looks at cholera, kala-azar (or black-fever), and malaria—the three main killers in these estates—to show that imperatives of private capital and law conditioned and constrained parameters of well-being, mortality, and morbidity in these plantations. It therefore suggests that epidemiological theories and praxis emerged from a simultaneous—but expedient—reading of three versions of the labour body: the pathological, the productive, and the legal. The overlaps between commerce, law, and pathogens provide for a unique, if not exceptional, social history of health in colonial India. |
| `In' analytical Note | Modern Asian Studies Vol. 52, No.2; Mar 2018: p.645-682 |
| Journal Source | Modern Asian Studies 2018-04 52, 2 |
| Key Words | Assam ; Diseased Plantations ; Law and the Political Economy ; 1860–1920 |