Hardiman Missionaries and their medicine

A Christian modernity for tribal India
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1917-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 71, 288 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hardiman, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
1. Introduction
2. The Bhils
3. The mission to the Bhils
4. The great famine
5. The conversion of the Bhagats
6. Christian healing
7. Fighting demons
8. Woman’s work for woman
9. A little empire
10. Medicine on a shoestring and a prayer
11. A mission for a postcolonial era
12. Medical modernity
13. Closure
14. Conclusion: Mission medicine and Bhil modernity
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hardiman David:
David Hardiman is Professor of History at the University of WarwickDavid Hardiman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick