01354nam a2200217Ia 4500 20260708094304.0 250523s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und|| 9780367247300 23 614.532 ZUR Zurbrigg, Sheila Epidemic Malaria and hunger in colonial Punjab : weakened by want / Sheila Zurbrigg South Asia ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 2019. xxiii, 446 p. ; 23 cm. The Social History of Health and Medicine in South Asia. This scholarly study argues that acute hunger and famine conditions played a central role in the severe malaria epidemics that affected colonial Punjab during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using mortality statistics, demographic data, and colonial records, Sheila Zurbrigg examines the relationship between food insecurity, famine relief policies, and malaria mortality. The book challenges conventional explanations of epidemic malaria and explores the broader connections between disease, poverty, nutrition, and colonial governance. It is an important contribution to the history of medicine, public health, and colonial South Asia. Medicine and Health Malaria -- India -- Punjab -- History. Public health -- India RBK 63231 63231 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2025-05-23 0.00 0 614.532 ZUR G4320 2025-05-23 00:00:00 2025-05-23 RBK Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection