Research Catalog

Title

Indian doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940 : the forgotten history / Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala.

Author

Greenwood, Anna, 1971-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Additional Authors

Topiwala, Harshad, 1945-

Description

x, 266 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"This pioneering book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya. As such, it deepens and broadens modern understandings of the complex constitution of the British Empire. The British Empire, although ideologically racist, nevertheless relied upon staff of all nationalities and ethnicities. Ideas and practices were imported between various colonial dependencies as much as they evolved responsively to local conditions. The book highlights the complex ambiguities of Empire; advancing modern understandings of the British Empire as a linked, multi-centred global phenomenon, while also providing a case study that enriches local understandings of the practice of medicine in a racially segregated context. Chapters examine in turn the main possible career options for Indian medical graduates as well as setting out the racial and political context of colonial Kenya. An impressively large and varied source base has been consulted throughout resulting in startling new insights into the complex operation of western medicine in this racially segregated world."--

Series Statement

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Uniform Title

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.

Subject

• 1800 - 1899
• Medicine > Kenya > History > 19th century
• Indians > Medicine > History
• Traditional medicine > Kenya > History
• Physicians > Kenya > History
• Ethnopharmacology
• Indians > Medicine
• Medicine
• Physicians
• Traditional medicine
• Kenya

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- 1. 'The Empire is Not White': Indian Doctors in Kenya -- 2. Indians, Migration and Medicine -- 3. Indians, Western Medicine and the Establishment of the Protectorate -- 4. Race and Medicine -- 5. Indians in the Colonial Medical Service -- 6. Squeezing Indians Out of Government Medicine -- 7. Indian Private Doctors in Kenya -- 8. Private Doctors: Practising Medicine in a Segregated World.

Call Number

Sc D 16-662

ISBN

• 9781137440525
• 113744052X

LCCN

2015004014

OCLC

909198301

Author

Greenwood, Anna, 1971-

Title

Indian doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940 : the forgotten history / Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800 - 1899

Added Author

Topiwala, Harshad, 1945-

Research Call Number

Sc D 16-662