Saurabh Mishra

Beastly encounters of the Raj

Livelihoods, livestock and veterinary health in North India, 1790-1920

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores both the social history of livestock and veterinary history in South Asia, and integrates both of them seamlessly within its narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780719089725
• ISBN-10: 0719089727
• Artikelnr.: 42467133

Autorenporträt

Saurabh Mishra is Lecturer in History at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I Veterinary Health and the Colonial State 1. Horse Breeding and the Ideologies of the Early Colonial State 2. Beasts
Murrains and Veterinary Health 3. Ticks
Germs and Bacteriological Research Part II Caste
Class and Cattle 4. Cattle
Famines and the Colonial State 5. Food Adulteration
Public Health and Middle Class Anxieties 6. Cattle-Poisoning and the Chamar Identity Conclusion Bibliography Index