Over the past few decades, academic research on the medical history of colonial India has concentrated mostly on the public health policy of the colonial government and the ingenious contrivance between colonial power and medicine in the formation of an empire, while neglecting the history of hospitals in the colonies. The present work attempts to bridge this gap by tracing the trajectories of hospital formation for the indigenous population, beginning with the early military and European hospitals. The book also focuses on the growth of dispensaries in the suburbs of Calcutta, as well as speciality hospitals in the city.
About the Author
Srilata Chatterjee is Professor of History, University of Calcutta. She is also the Academic Coordinator and Co-investigator of the Wellcome Trust-funded Calcutta University Centre for History of Medicine under the India Awards Programme of the Welcome Trust. She has authored Congress Politics in Bengal 1919-1939 (2003) and contributed numerous articles to books and journals. Her research interests include the history of medicine and public health, and the political history of twentieth-century Bengal. The research for the book was funded by a Wellcome Trust Grant for a Documentation Project under the auspices of the University of Calcutta.
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