Dhrub Kumar Singh
Fields of research and interest:
Science, technology and medicine (especially mapping the rise, growth, and entertainment of homoeopathy as an alternative medical tradition in India)
Science, technology and medicine (especially mapping the rise, growth, and entertainment of homoeopathy as an alternative medical tradition in India)
Ongoing projects:
Monograph on cholera in the nineteenth century India
Bibliography on the History of Disease and Medicine in South Asia
Contacts with journals, newsletters, institutions:
Member of the Asian Society for the History of Medicine (ASHM)
Bibliography of recent (since 1993) monographs and articles:
- 'Clouds of Cholera and Clouds around Cholera, 1817 -1870’, in: Deepak Kumar (ed.), Diseases and Medicine in Colonial India (2001)
- ‘Cholera, Cantonment, and Pilgrim Sites in Nineteenth Century Colonial India’, in: Brahmanand and Thirumalli (eds.), Repressed Discourses: Essays in honour of Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (New Delhi, 2004)
- ‘Cholera: Changing Perception of its Causality in the Last Two Centuries - A Cursory Appraisal’, in: Chittabrata Palit and Achintya Dutta (eds.), Epicemics and Empire (Forthcoming 2006)
- ‘Role Reversals: History in Service of Medicine, Medicine in History to History of Medicine’ (Forthcoming in Social Scientist.)
Position: PhD Scholar at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Address: Centre for Historical Studies, School for Social Sciences I, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067 India
Telephone: 0091-11-26121131, 0091-9818297076
Address: Centre for Historical Studies, School for Social Sciences I, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067 India
Telephone: 0091-11-26121131, 0091-9818297076