Beastly encounters of the Raj : livelihoods, livestock and veterinary health in North India, 1790-1920
Mishra, SaurabhAuthor
Historians of medicine have often focused exclusively on medical developments and ignored larger social realities. This book challenges such partial approaches and seeks to integrate medical issues within a larger narrative of social change. It explores both the social history of livestock and veterinary history in South Asia, and integrates both of them seamlessly within its narrative.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Historians of medicine have often focused exclusively on medical developments and ignored larger social realities. This book challenges such partial approaches and seeks to integrate medical issues within a larger narrative of social change. It explores both the social history of livestock and veterinary history in South Asia, and integrates both of them seamlessly within its narrative.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 23, 2015).
Veterinary medicine
Cattle
History, 20th Century
Animal Husbandry
Livestock
Veterinary Medicine
History, 19th Century
History, 18th Century
History
India
History, Modern 1601-
Humanities
Health Occupations
Asia, Western
Animals, Domestic
Agriculture
Asia
Disciplines and Occupations
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture
Animal Population Groups
Technology, Industry, Agriculture
Animals
Geographic Locations
Eukaryota
Geographicals
Organisms
Veterinary Medicine
Health & Biological Sciences