livelihoods, livestock and veterinary health in India, 1790-1920 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Saurabh Mishra.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Manchester :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Manchester University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
ix, 173 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Studies in imperialism.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-166) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.