02229nam a22002657a 4500 20230507183020.0 230507b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781316623619 : Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F,49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. : ZBD0052 : 01/05/2023 616.936 ROY Deb Roy, Rohan. Malarial subjects : empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909. / Rohan Deb Roy. , United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , 2017. xv, 332 pages : illustrations : 26cm. 2713 Introduction: side effects of empire "Fairest of Peruvian maids": planting Cinchonas in British India "An imponderable poison": shifting geographies of a diagnostic category "A Cinchona disease": making Burdwan fever Beating about the bush": manufacturing quinine in a colonial factory Of "losses gladly borne": feeding quinine, warring mosquitoes Epilogue: empire, medicine and nonhumans Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy to impotence. And yet, it was not a self-contained category. The reconsolidation of malaria as a diagnostic category during this period happened within a wider context in which cinchona plants and their most valuable extract, quinine, were reinforced as objects of natural knowledge and social control. In India, the exigencies and apparatuses of British imperial rule occasioned the close interactions between these histories. In the process, British imperial rule became entangled with a network of nonhumans that included, apart from cinchona plants and the drug quinine, a range of objects described as malarial, as well as mosquitoes. Malarial Subjects explores this history of the co-constitution of a cure and disease, of British colonial rule and nonhumans, and of science, medicine and empire Cinchona Colonialism history History Malaria Quinine history Rohan Deb Roy BOOK 60228 60228 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2023-05-07 Zafaa Books 2713.00 4 616.936 ROY 29299 2025-10-24 15:21:09 2025-09-24 2023-05-07 BOOK