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Date Posted: 08:21:26 12/11/08 Thu
Author: Anonymous
Subject: 'Nationalizing the Body' - New Book by Anthem Press

�Nationalizing the Body: The Medical Market, Print and Healing in Colonial Bengal� by Projit Bihari Mukharji
ISBN 9781843313151; List Price: �60.00 / $100.00.
Available for sale at a discount on www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com.

�Nationalizing the Body� examines the different meanings of �modern medicine� that were employed in colonial South Asia. It explores the contention that to be �modern� means a host of different things to different groups. In colonial societies the ideology of modernity was redolent with multifarious political and emotional connotations. Medicinal discourses were often central to the colonial state�s search for legitimacy as an agent of modernization and progress, and were thus exceptionally fecund areas of debate in which the various meanings of modernity were asserted. Much of the scholarship on South Asian medical practices has remained discretely separated into a variety of academic fields. Though scholarship of the very highest calibre has emerged in diverse fields such as Anthropology, Social History, History of Medicine, Indology and Classical Languages, there has been very little cross-hatching between them. Even within the History of Medicine, those who work on �indigenous� medical traditions and those who look at �western� medicine seem to be separated from each other by invisible walls. Medicine and Modernity in Colonial Bengal develops a comprehensive approach that synthesises the excellent scholarship available in these diverse fields, and evolves an integrated framework within which to understand �folk�, learned �traditional� and �western� medicine together. By incorporating a wide range of disciplinary insights, this book provides a unique multi-disciplinary analysis.

Projit Bihari Mukharji is a Lecturer in Modern History at Newcastle University. He was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta and the Jawaharalal Nehru University, New Delhi and received his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London in 2006. His primary research interests are in the social history of medicine in South Asia, and he has also published on the history of sport and imperial cultural history.

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