Introduction: Significance of medicine in the colonial context - Colonial understandings of Indian landscape, diseases and causations - Initial attitudes towards indigenous systems – Concerns about survival and initial medical measures
The IMS (Indian Medical Service) - Medical Departments - Enclavism - Shifts in the discourses on race, climate and diseases - Hill stations and Sanatoria - Medical Education
From White personnel’s health to ‘Native’ and Public Health - Challenge of Epidemics (Smallpox, Malaria, Cholera, Plague), Sanitary Measures, Challenges of International Trade and Politics
Local Response - Compliances and Resistances - Cultural challenges - Volunteer Associations – Role of media and local intelligentsia
Tropical Paradigm - Tropical Diseases and Tropical Medicine; Medical Research – Emergence of Bacteriological and other Research Institutions – Malarial and other field surveys/researches - Vaccine Research and Production
Colonial Medicine and Women – Zenana Missions, Lock Hospitals, Scientific Midwifery, Nursing, Women’s Medical Institutions, Women’s Medical Service (WMS).
Non-State initiatives – Setting up of funds, dispensaries, hospitals and colleges through private philanthropy – Role of Missionaries
Western versus Indigenous Systems – Revivalist movements - Professionalization of indigenous systems - Standardization of texts and drugs - Commercialization