Article ID: CBB880218189

‘These Curly-Bearded, Olive-Skinned Warriors’: Medicine, Prosthetics, Rehabilitation and the Disabled Sepoy in the First World War, 1914–1920 (2020)

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The sepoy had always been a central figure in colonial governance and policing and had played important roles in both world wars. Focusing on World War I, this article explores the sepoys’ corporeal experience of the war through their own letters. The article explores how the war had a catalytic impact on colonial perceptions of and responses to disability in the colony and how medicine, prosthetics and rehabilitation came to be seen as the ‘promise’ made by the Crown to Indian soldiers for their service. The article also examines the introduction of cultures and institutions of rehabilitation into the colony in the form of the Queen Mary Technical Institute and explores the intersections of race, empire and disability at these sites of rehabilitation.

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Authors & Contributors
Booth, Katie
Sullivan, Evan P.
Fogarty, Rick
Paul R. Lawrie
Hunt-Kennedy, Stefanie
Wald, Erica
Concepts
Disabilities; disability; accessibility
Rehabilitation
Great Britain, colonies
Medicine and race
World War I
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
Enlightenment
Places
United States
India
Georgia (U.S.)
Americas
Spain
South Africa
Institutions
East India Company (English)
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