Beastly Encounters Of The Raj: Livelihoods, Livestock And Veterinary Health In North India, 1790–1920 (Studies In Imperialism, 121)

This book explores both the social history of livestock and veterinary history in South Asia, and integrates both of them seamlessly within its narrative. Historians of medicine have often focused exclusively on medical developments and ignored larger social realities. This book challengessuch partial approaches and seeks to integrate medical issues within a larger narrative of social change. Keeping the question of livestock at the centre of its discussions, it explores a range of themes such as famines, epizootics, medical innovations, agrarian relations, urbanisation, casteformations, etc. Such a wide-ranging approach allows it to highlight a number of new areas of inquiry that have remained unexplored till now.

• | Author: Saurabh Mishra
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 184 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0719089727
• | ISBN-13: 9780719089725