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My training was firmly within the Subaltern Studies tradition and I continue to work within that tradition of scholarship. I am therefore interested in issues of marginality and marginalization both within and through science. People and knowledges who are disempowered are the main subject of my studies. My twin ambition is to write histories of science that are anti-colonial without being nationalist or identitarian.
In my first monograph, Nationalizing the Body (London: 2009), I wrote about the South Asian doctors and medical subordinates who were employed in the lower echelons of the colonial medical establishment in British India. I highlighted their creativitiy, agency and politics in vernacularizing 'western' medicine so as to meet local realities. In my second monograph, Doctoring Traditions (Chicago: 2016), I explored how Ayurvedic medicine modernized under colonialism. While focusing on the agency and creativity of the Ayurvedic physicians of the colonial era, I also acknowledged their political exclusions as well as their intellectual engagement with "western" intellectual traditions.
Currently, I am working on a history of human difference and race in 20th century South Asia. This touches on the histories of physical anthropology, evolutionary biology, human genetics and archeogenetics. My dual aim is to both recover the repressed stories of Indian pioneers of genetics as well as to uncover how the politics of race, indigeneity and biocolonialism play out in the South Asian context.
The issues of identity and inheritance raised by the current project has also lured me into the parallel histories of forensics and parapsychology which, in various ways, provided orthogonal ways of thinking about these topics. These also resonate with an older and inchoate interest in science and enchantment.
Finally, I have an interest in the history of chemistry in 19th century Bengal. I am particularly interested in how modernized parachemical traditions such as rasayana and kimiya resonated with vernacularized forms of "modern chemistry". This history overlaps at multiple points with both my interest in medical history and the histories of bodily difference.
Research Interests
Colonial Medicine
Indigenous Medicines
Race Science
Genetics
Physical Anthropology
Science & the Supernatural
Forensic Science
Nineteenth-Century Chemistry
Affiliations
Graduate Group Member:
Department of History
Department of Religious Studies
Department of South Asian Studies
Teaching Fields
Medical History
Indigenous Medicines
Race
Genetics
Biopiracy
Postcolonial Science
Psychic Research
Parapsychology
Courses Taught
Comparative Medicine
Law & Medicine
CSI, Global: Histories of Forensic Sciences
Botanic Empire: Plants and Empire, c. 1750-1950
Other Reasons: Science & the Supernatural
In my first monograph, Nationalizing the Body (London: 2009), I wrote about the South Asian doctors and medical subordinates who were employed in the lower echelons of the colonial medical establishment in British India. I highlighted their creativitiy, agency and politics in vernacularizing 'western' medicine so as to meet local realities. In my second monograph, Doctoring Traditions (Chicago: 2016), I explored how Ayurvedic medicine modernized under colonialism. While focusing on the agency and creativity of the Ayurvedic physicians of the colonial era, I also acknowledged their political exclusions as well as their intellectual engagement with "western" intellectual traditions.
Currently, I am working on a history of human difference and race in 20th century South Asia. This touches on the histories of physical anthropology, evolutionary biology, human genetics and archeogenetics. My dual aim is to both recover the repressed stories of Indian pioneers of genetics as well as to uncover how the politics of race, indigeneity and biocolonialism play out in the South Asian context.
The issues of identity and inheritance raised by the current project has also lured me into the parallel histories of forensics and parapsychology which, in various ways, provided orthogonal ways of thinking about these topics. These also resonate with an older and inchoate interest in science and enchantment.
Finally, I have an interest in the history of chemistry in 19th century Bengal. I am particularly interested in how modernized parachemical traditions such as rasayana and kimiya resonated with vernacularized forms of "modern chemistry". This history overlaps at multiple points with both my interest in medical history and the histories of bodily difference.
Research Interests
Colonial Medicine
Indigenous Medicines
Race Science
Genetics
Physical Anthropology
Science & the Supernatural
Forensic Science
Nineteenth-Century Chemistry
Affiliations
Graduate Group Member:
Department of History
Department of Religious Studies
Department of South Asian Studies
Teaching Fields
Medical History
Indigenous Medicines
Race
Genetics
Biopiracy
Postcolonial Science
Psychic Research
Parapsychology
Courses Taught
Comparative Medicine
Law & Medicine
CSI, Global: Histories of Forensic Sciences
Botanic Empire: Plants and Empire, c. 1750-1950
Other Reasons: Science & the Supernatural
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