Zurbrigg, Sheila (Author)
Routledge India
Physical Details: 470
Language: English
This book documents the primary role of acute hunger (semi- and frank starvation) in the ‘fulminant’ malaria epidemics that repeatedly afflicted the northwest plains of British India through the first half of colonial rule. Using Punjab vital registration data and regression analysis it also tracks the marked decline in annual malaria mortality after 1908 with the control of famine, despite continuing post-monsoonal malaria transmission across the province. The study establishes a time-series of annual malaria mortality estimates for each of the 23 plains districts of colonial Punjab province between 1868 and 1947 and for the early post-Independence years (1948-60) in (East) Punjab State. It goes on to investigate the political imperatives motivating malaria policy shifts on the part of the British Raj. This work reclaims the role of hunger in Punjab malaria mortality history and, in turn, raises larger epistemic questions regarding the adequacy of modern concepts of nutrition and epidemic causation in historical and demographic analysis. Part of The Social History of Health and Medicine in South Asia series, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of colonial history, modern history, social medicine, social anthropology and public health.
...MoreReview Mrunmayee Satam (2021) Review of "Epidemic Malaria and Hunger in Colonial Punjab: Weakened by Want". Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.
Similar Citations
Book
Todd Tucker;
(2007)
The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science
Book
John Crowley;
William J. Smyth;
Mike Murphy;
(2012)
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine
Book
Tom Scott-Smith;
(2020)
On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief
Book
Sheila Zurbrigg;
(2019)
Malaria in Colonial South Asia: Uncoupling Disease and Destitution
Book
Yip, Ka-che;
(2009)
Disease, Colonialism, and the State: Malaria in Modern East Asian History
Book
Rohan Deb Roy;
(2017)
Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909
Chapter
Gilman, Sander L.;
(2013)
Epidemics of Famine and Obesity: China as the Modern World
Article
J. P. Hume;
M. Leenstra;
R. Winters;
(2017)
A Famine in Surat in 1631 and Dodos on Mauritius: A Long Lost Manuscript Rediscovered
Book
Winther, Paul C.;
(2003)
Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895
Book
Gunn, Geoffrey C.;
(2014)
Rice Wars in Colonial Vietnam: The Great Famine and the Viet Minh Road to Power
Article
Jones, M.;
(2000)
The Ceylon malaria epidemic of 1934--35: A case study in colonial medicine
Article
Chiffoleau, Sylvia;
(2013)
Entre bienfaisance, contrôle des populations et agenda international: la politique sanitaire du mandat français en Syrie et au Liban
Article
Atsuko Naono;
(2022)
“Going ‘the Last Mile’ to Eliminate Malaria” in Myanmar?
Book
Michael Zeheter;
(2016)
Epidemics, Empire, and Environments: Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818–1910
Book
Buckingham, Jane;
(2002)
Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement
Article
Bhattacharya, Nandini;
(2011)
The Logic of Location: Malaria Research in Colonial India, Darjeeling and Duars, 1900--30
Book
Wendy Zeva Goldman;
Donald Arnold Filtzer;
(2015)
Hunger and War: Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union during World War II
Article
Lima, Eronides da Silva;
(2009)
Quantidade, qualidade, harmonia e adequação: princípios-guia da sociedade sem fome em Josué de Castro
Book
Frens-String;
(2021)
Hungry for Revolution
Article
Antonio Astorgano Abajo;
Fuensanta Garrido Domené;
(2017)
El paludismo en Palencia (1800-1804) a través del Canto Votivo del jesuita Tolrá
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Medical History
Be the first to comment!