Missionaries and Their Medicine A Christian Modernity for Tribal India

Name: Missionaries and Their Medicine A Christian Modernity for Tribal India
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ISBN: 9780719095399

ISBN-10: 0719095395

ISBN-13: 9780719095399

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Hardiman, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

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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. The study is informed by a deep knowledge of the people amongst whom the missionaries worked, the author having lived for extensive periods in the tribal tracts of western India. He argues that the Bhils were never the passive objects of missionary attention and that they created for themselves their own form of ‘Christian modernity.’ The book provides a major intervention in the history of colonial medicine, as Hardiman argues that missionary medicine had a specific quality of its own – which he describes and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 8/31/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

David Hardiman is Professor of History at Warwick University and author of Gandhi in His Time and Ours.