Research Catalog

Title

Indian doctors in Kenya, 1890-1940 : 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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Details

Additional Authors

Topiwala, Harshad, 1945-

Description

x, 266 pages; 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
• Race Relations > history
• History, 19th Century
• Colonialism > history
• History of Medicine
• Medicine > Kenya > History > 19th century
• Indians > Medicine > History
• Traditional medicine > Kenya > History
• Physicians > Kenya > History
• Ethnopharmacology
• HISTORY / Africa / East
• HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
• HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
• HISTORY / Social History
• Colonialism > history > Kenya
• History, 19th Century > Kenya
• Race Relations > history > Kenya
• India > ethnology
• Kenya
• India

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781137440525 (hardback)
• 113744052X (hardback)

LCCN

^^2015004014

OCLC

• 909198301
• SCSB-11218714

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library