Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World : Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000 (Paperback)

List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations 1. Health, Medicine, and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: A Material Culture Approach, Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK) and Burton Cleetus (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 2. 'Europe does not want you': Natural History, Materia Medica and the Empire, Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester, UK) 3. In Pursuit of a Healing Eden: Exploring the Medico-Botanical Networks of Knowledge Circulation in the Indian Ocean Region with Special Reference to South India, 1600-1800 CE, Malavika Binny (SRM University Amravati, India) 4. Rhubarb in the Indian Ocean World: The Entangled Itinerary of a Material Complex, Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK) 5. Perfumes in Early Modern India: Ephemeral Materiality and Aromatic Mobility, Amrita Chattopadhyay (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 6. Letters to the Vaidyan: The Circulation of Ayurvedic Drugs and Knowledge from Kottakkal Aryavaidyasala to South-East Asia, Burton Cleetus (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 7. Toxic Trading: Poisons and Medicines in British India, David Arnold (University of Warwick, UK) 8. 'The All-Cleansing Soap'? History of Soap in Keralam, c. 1880-1950, Greeshma Justin John (University of Hyderabad, India) 9. Chaulmoogra: Trading Indian Ocean World Leprosy Remedies in the South Pacific, Jane Buckingham (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) 10. Bodies in Circulation: Determining Age and Regulating Health of Transported Convicts to the Andamans, c. 1860s-1920s, Suparna Sengupta (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India) 11. From Tribal Knowledge to Ayurvedic Medicine: Transition of Arogyapacha, the Wonder Herb of Kerala, Girija K.P. (Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla) 12. Of Miracle Drugs, Captain Hooks and Colonialism 2.0: Bioprospecting, Biopiracy and the Patenting of Tribal Bioresources and Medicinal Knowledge, Kaushiki Das (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 13. Privileging the Body: The Bio-materialisation of Medicine and the Asymmetrical Production of Pluralism, Harish Naraindas (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Bibliography Index