livelihoods, livestock and veterinary health in India, 1790-1920 /
Saurabh Mishra.
Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2015.
ix, 173 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm.
Studies in imperialism.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-166) and index.
Introduction -- Part I : Veterinary health and the colonial state. Horse breeding and the ideologies of the early colonial state -- Beasts, murrains, and veterinary health -- Ticks, germs, and bacteriological research -- Part II : Caste, class, and cattle. Cattle, famines, and the colonial state -- Food adulteration, public health, and middle-class anxieties -- Cattle poisoning and the Chamar identity.