02084nam a22002417a 4500 20261010235725.0 261010b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789369895755 : Feel Books Pvt. Ltd. : 4381/4, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002 : D/CRB26-27/943 : 01/10/2026 954.031 NAT Nath, Ipshita. In Sickness and in Death : How Faith, Medicine and Race Shaped British India. / Gurugram : HarperCollins India , 2026 lii, 411p. : 24cm. 559.30 When the British first arrived in India in 1608, they knew that deadly diseases lurked in the tropical subcontinent. But what they did not foresee was how swiftly these pathogenic forces would puncture European medical hubris. Sahibs and soldiers, armed with muskets, ledgers and scientific arrogance, soon found themselves struggling to stay alive as illness ravaged urban hubs and remote mofussils alike. Simple fevers proved fatal, and survival seemed more a matter of chance than cure. With recurrent public health crises disrupting imperial business, straining infrastructure and draining resources, disease became a central problem of British governance. Over two centuries, the relentless toll of disease gradually exposed the fragility of colonial control and shattered the illusion of the invincibility of the white race. Ipshita Nath's In Sickness and in Death draws on a vast body of medical and academic research to not only examine how disease reshaped colonial policy, contested imperial ambition and altered everyday life in the subcontinent, but also show that the politics of disease-determined by fear, force and power structures-are glaringly present even today, in the post-pandemic era. Medicine - India - History - 19th century Cholera -- India - History - 19th century Epidemics - India - History - 19th century Public health - India - History - 19th century Ipshita Nath. BOOK 70891 70891 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-10-10 Feel Books Pvt. Ltd. 559.30 0 954.031 NAT 31878 2026-10-10 23:58:39 2026-10-10 BOOK