Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19

by David Arnold

Covid-19 has given renewed, urgent attention to "the pandemic" as a devastating, recurrent global phenomenon. Today the term is freely and widely used-but in reality, it has a long and contested history, centred on South Asia.

Pandemic India is an innovative enquiry into the emergence of the idea and changing meaning of pandemics, exploring the pivotal role played by-or assigned to-India over the past 200 years. Using the perspectives of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197659624
• ISBN13: 9780197659625
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.7"