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Vice in the barracks :medicine, the military and the making of Colonial India, 1780-1868 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Vice in the barracks :Erica Wald.
Reminder of title:	medicine, the military and the making of Colonial India, 1780-1868 /
Author:	Wald, Erica,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	1800 - 1899
Subject:	EuropeansIndia.
Subject:	India.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137270993
ISBN:	1137270993 (electronic bk.)

Vice in the barracks :medicine, the military and the making of Colonial India, 1780-1868 /
Wald, Erica,

Vice in the barracks :medicine, the military and the making of Colonial India, 1780-1868 /Erica Wald. - 1 online resource. - Cambridge Imperial and post-Colonial studies series. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series..

1. The East India Company, The Army and Indian Society -- 2. Experiments in Venereal Disease Control, 1797-1831 -- 3. Medicine and Disease in an 'Age of Reform' -- 4. The Body of the Soldier and Space of the Cantonment -- 5. 'Unofficial' Responses to Lock Hospital Closure, 1835-1868 -- Conclusion.

Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and alcohol-related problems holding serious implications for the economic and military performance of the East India Company. These concerns revolved around the European soldiery in India; the costly, but often unruly, 'thin white line' of colonial rule. This book examines the colonial state's approach to these vice-driven health risks. In doing so it throws new light on the emergence of social and imperial mindsets and on the empire, fuelled by fear of the lower orders, sexual deviation, disease and mutiny. An exploration of these mindsets reveals a lesser-explored fact of rule -- the fractured nature of the Company state. Further, it shows how the measures employed by the state to deal with these vice-driven health problems had wide-ranging consequences not simply for the army itself but for India and the empire more broadly. By refocusing our attention on to the military core of the colonial state, Wald demonstrates the ways in which army decision-making stretched beyond the cantonment boundary to help define the state's engagement with and understanding of Indian society.

ISBN: 1137270993 (electronic bk.)

Source: 633000Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Corporate Names:

688038
East India Company.
Army--History--19th century.Subjects--Chronological Terms:

1800 - 1899
Subjects--Topical Terms:

688040
Europeans
--India.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

181382
India.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS475.1

Dewey Class. No.: 954.03/1

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