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Self-Fashioning of a Hindu Political Sanyasi: Muscular Asceticism and Sectarian Freedom in Swami Satyadev Parivrajak’s Autobiography 印度政治散雅西的自我塑造:斯瓦米·萨提亚德夫·帕里夫拉贾克自传中的肌肉苦行主义和宗派自由
IF 0.5 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI: 10.1177/02576430231162267
Charu Gupta
This essay focuses on the autobiographical writings of Swami Satyadev ‘Parivrajak’ (1879–1961), a prolific Hindi writer, and a charismatic modern-day worldly political ascetic in the early twentieth-century north India. It discusses three central pillars of his ineradicably political autobiography: first, the performance of an exemplary celibate Hindu masculinity; second, the conceptualization of a segmented and exclusionary freedom, unencumbered by the presence of Muslims; and third, his deep antagonism towards Gandhi, and defence of his assassination. Taken together, his autobiography is a critical contribution to the intellectual history and genealogy of sectarian Hindi–Hindu literature, while also showcasing cultivated precursors of a modern, monolithic and militant Hindu nation.
这篇文章关注的是斯瓦米·萨提亚德夫(1879-1961)的自传体作品,他是一位多产的印度作家,也是20世纪初印度北部一位富有魅力的现代世俗政治苦行僧。它讨论了他那不可避免的政治自传的三个中心支柱:第一,一个典型的独身印度教男子气概的表现;第二,对不受穆斯林存在阻碍的分割和排他性自由的概念化;第三,他对甘地怀有深深的敌意,并为暗杀甘地辩护。总而言之,他的自传是对思想史和宗派印度-印度教文学谱系的重要贡献,同时也展示了一个现代、单一和好战的印度教国家的培养先驱。
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Book review: Michael Mann, A British Rome In India: Calcutta – Capital For An Empire 书评:迈克尔·曼,《英属罗马在印度:加尔各答——帝国的首都》
IF 0.5 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI: 10.1177/02576430231162273
S. Chaudhuri
Michael Mann, A British Rome In India: Calcutta – Capital For An Empire, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022, 214 pp. ISBN: 978-3-88462-411-1 (Hardback).
迈克尔·曼,英国罗马在印度:加尔各答-帝国的首都,Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022, 214页。ISBN: 978-3-88462-411-1(精装本)。
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Book review: Sebastian Schwecke, Debt, Trust, and Reputation: Extra-legal Finance in Northern India 书评:《债务、信托与声誉:印度北部的法外金融》
IF 0.5 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI: 10.1177/02576430231162268
Tirthankar Roy
Sebastian Schwecke, Debt, Trust, and Reputation: Extra-legal Finance in Northern India, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xiv + 372 pp., ₹995.00. ISBN: 978-1316517260.
塞巴斯蒂安·Schwecke,债务,信托和声誉:印度北部的法外金融,剑桥,剑桥大学出版社,2022,xiv + 372页,₹995.00。ISBN: 978 - 1316517260。
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New Diseases, Newer Categories: Ayurveda’s Engagement with Epidemics in Travancore 新疾病,新类别:阿育吠陀与特拉凡科流行病的接触
IF 0.5 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430231183508
Burton Cleetus
The advent of Western modernity in India, as a by-product of British colonialism, brought about considerable strain within Indian medical traditions. Indigenous medical traditions which were operating within the broad humoral theory of disease causation came to be subjected to the logic of biomedicine. By the late nineteenth century, as the British in India consolidated their state systems and the princely states modelled their administrative structures in accordance with the British state, there was an increased acceptance of biomedical standards against indigenous medical norms. This was further accentuated by the fear of epidemics, which suggested that diseases spread from person to person and could affect large geographic areas bringing death and suffering in its wake. Disease control and management had, therefore, become a major concern for both the state systems in the British presidencies and in the princely states. The prevalence of contagious diseases offered a challenge to reorganize the public health systems of the states, yet they also provided an opportunity to legitimize state sovereignty over the bodies of its subjects. Diseases that were previously seen as localized and situated within culturally specific locales were now increasingly subjected to the governing mechanisms of the state. This paper examines how the medical bureaucratization of Travancore, in the south-western part of the Indian subcontinent, affected local healthcare traditions in the face of expanding fear of epidemics, ultimately led to the reshaping of indigenous medical systems.
作为英国殖民主义的副产品,西方现代性在印度的到来给印度的医学传统带来了相当大的压力。在广泛的体液致病理论范围内运作的土著医学传统,开始服从于生物医学的逻辑。到19世纪后期,随着英国人在印度巩固了他们的国家制度,土邦按照英国国家的模式建立了他们的行政结构,人们越来越多地接受生物医学标准,而不是当地的医疗规范。对流行病的恐惧进一步加剧了这一点,这表明疾病在人与人之间传播,并可能影响到大片地理区域,造成死亡和痛苦。因此,疾病控制和管理成为了英国总统制和君主制国家体系的主要关注点。传染病的流行对重组各州的公共卫生系统提出了挑战,但它们也提供了一个使国家主权对其臣民的身体合法化的机会。以前被认为是局部的疾病,存在于特定文化的地方,现在越来越多地受到国家管理机制的影响。本文考察了印度次大陆西南部的特拉凡科的医疗官僚化如何在面对不断扩大的流行病恐惧时影响当地的医疗传统,最终导致了本土医疗系统的重塑。
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Smallpox Under the Raj: Resistance Policies and the Indigenous Response in Colonial Malabar, 1800–1900 殖民统治下的天花:抵抗政策和马拉巴尔殖民地的土著反应,1800-1900
IF 0.5 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430231183518
Satheesh Palanki
This paper explores British efforts to combat smallpox in Malabar from 1800 to 1900 ce. Despite intense efforts, smallpox persisted due to fractured state policies, native resistance and public apathy. Epidemics such as smallpox, cholera, malaria and fevers posed serious threats to British colonial efforts in the Indian subcontinent, hindering colonial expansion. Smallpox, in particular, was prevalent throughout much of the region, including South India, for centuries. In Malabar, which was part of the Madras Presidency, the prevalence of smallpox presented significant challenges to the British during their colonial expedition, lasting well into the twentieth century. To sustain their rule, the British were compelled to implement several policies to combat the epidemic. British Malabar, one of the districts of Madras Presidency located on India’s western coast, had been rocked by the persistence of contagious diseases in the region. 1 Smallpox caused millions of deaths and was considered one of the most severe and virulent of the diseases, responsible for more victims than all other diseases combined. Survivors often experienced disfigurement, therefore, it held a unique place in Indian and British attitudes towards disease, treatment and prevention. 2 It was intertwined with religious beliefs and rituals. However, scholarly works on smallpox are limited in Malabar during the British colonial period. 3 Vaccination was considered the most benevolent part of the European medicine under the civilizing mission in India.
本文探讨了1800年至1900年英国在马拉巴尔抗击天花的努力。尽管付出了巨大的努力,但由于国家政策的破裂、当地人的抵抗和公众的冷漠,天花仍然存在。天花、霍乱、疟疾和发烧等流行病对英国在印度次大陆的殖民努力构成严重威胁,阻碍了殖民扩张。特别是天花,在包括南印度在内的大部分地区流行了几个世纪。在马拉巴尔,这是马德拉斯总统任期的一部分,天花的流行给英国的殖民探险带来了重大挑战,一直持续到20世纪。为了维持他们的统治,英国人被迫实施了一些政策来对抗这种流行病。英属马拉巴尔是位于印度西海岸的马德拉斯省的一个区,该地区持续存在的传染病使该地区深受震动。天花造成数百万人死亡,被认为是最严重和最致命的疾病之一,造成的受害者比所有其他疾病的总和还要多。幸存者经常经历毁容,因此,它在印度和英国对待疾病、治疗和预防的态度中占有独特的地位。它与宗教信仰和仪式交织在一起。然而,在英国殖民时期,关于天花的学术著作在马拉巴尔是有限的。在印度的教化使命下,接种疫苗被认为是欧洲医学中最仁慈的部分。
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Enlivening Gandhi and Sanitary Nationalism: Transmuting Health into Materialization of Swaraj 激活甘地和卫生民族主义:将健康转化为斯瓦拉杰的物质化
IF 0.5 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430231183509
Apalak Das
Health defines the nation—since the nineteenth century, the liberal democratic states in the West had been compulsive about the nation’s health, albeit, at the same time, they were much repulsive towards the health of the colonies, except the white enclaves where sanitary improvement was prioritized more than that of native towns. It was only after the germination of germ theory that colonial states took the health of the ‘colonized’ into account on a serious note. Nevertheless, these whirling ideas, debates, approaches and colonial encounters regarding health and hygiene shaped Gandhi’s perception on body, sanitation and nationalism. The Gandhian way of equating Swaraj with the cleanliness of mind, body and soul, i.e., ‘Constructive Programme’, was in contrast to the ‘Obstructive Programme’ like civil disobedience. To Gandhi, a nation could truly attain Swaraj by cleansing the self and the ‘others’. The bodies, previously ‘colonized’, were now ‘nationalized’ through the Constructive Programme and health directives. This article seeks to explore those Gandhian narratives on sanitation and health and the way in which the notion of Swaraj was enmeshed with the emerging health education.
健康定义了一个国家——自19世纪以来,西方的自由民主国家一直对国家的健康有着强制性的要求,尽管与此同时,他们对殖民地的健康非常反感,除了白人飞地,那里的卫生改善比本土城镇的卫生改善更重要。只有在细菌理论萌芽之后,殖民地国家才认真考虑到“被殖民者”的健康问题。然而,这些关于健康和卫生的思想、辩论、方法和殖民地遭遇塑造了甘地对身体、卫生和民族主义的看法。甘地将斯瓦拉杰等同于思想、身体和灵魂的清洁,即“建设性计划”,与公民不服从等“阻碍性计划”形成鲜明对比。对甘地来说,一个国家可以通过净化自我和“他人”来真正达到斯瓦拉杰。通过《建设性方案》和《卫生指令》,以前被“殖民化”的尸体现在被“国有化”了。本文试图探索甘地关于卫生和健康的叙述,以及斯瓦拉吉的概念如何与新兴的健康教育相结合。
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Is Medical Tourism Transcultural Hypogamy? 医疗旅游是跨文化的一夫多妻制吗?
IF 0.5 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430231184534
Harish Naraindas
This article attempts to make a set of interrelated arguments. It claims that the epithet ‘medical tourism’, which is of recent provenance, tacitly subscribes to a particular and narrow understanding of ‘medicine’, namely, the Anglo-American variant of biomedicine. This variant, unlike its Continental European counterpart, does not countenance the spa (Kur, Kuur, Termas, etc.) as ‘medical’ therapy, a therapy that is part of orthodox biomedicine on the continent, albeit on its fringe and one where pleasure and therapy often coexist. The Anglo-American variant leads to an exclusive focus on what may be called organ-based therapy with an emphasis on surgical and technological intervention, where uninsured and under-insured ‘middle-class’ patients travel from the White world to wog-land. This is a reversal of older forms of medical travel where rich wogs travelled from wog-land to the White world for medical treatment. The reversal results in a binary of White vampires and wog victims and is responsible, in part, for the moral tension of the oxymoron called ‘medical tourism’, with the other part of the oxymoron being constituted by the contradiction between pleasure and therapy. The vampire-victim binary in turn often mutes the mediating virtuosos— doctors, hospitals, medical travel operators, firms, companies, websites and most importantly, medical expertise and technology—in the analytical and explanatory canvas. In light of this, the article not only suggests that the epithet ‘medical tourism’ requires careful scrutiny and needs to be situated as part of a longer genealogy and larger canvas to include all kinds of transnational, transcultural and transregional medical travel, but it also makes a plea for re-examining the kind of morality play that the epithet engenders by asking, among other things, if vampires could also be victims, and what happens to this binary when the biomedical fringe (the Continental spa/Kur/Kuur/Termas) and alternative systems of medicine (e.g., Ayurveda and host of other therapies) are brought into play, or when doctors and therapists undertake travel for medical/therapeutic expertise.
这篇文章试图提出一系列相互关联的论点。它声称,最近出现的“医疗旅游”一词,默认了对“医学”的一种特定和狭隘的理解,即英美变体的生物医学。与欧洲大陆的同类不同,这种变体不支持水疗(Kur, Kuur, Termas等)作为“医学”疗法,这种疗法是欧洲大陆正统生物医学的一部分,尽管处于边缘地位,而且快乐和治疗经常并存。英美的变体导致了对所谓器官治疗的独家关注,强调手术和技术干预,没有保险和保险不足的“中产阶级”患者从白人世界来到了黑人世界。这与以前富有的狼人从狼地到白人世界治病的医疗旅行方式截然相反。这种逆转导致了白人吸血鬼和wog受害者的二元对立,并在一定程度上造成了被称为“医疗旅游”的矛盾修饰法的道德紧张,而这种矛盾修饰法的另一部分是由快乐和治疗之间的矛盾构成的。反过来,“吸血鬼-受害者”的二元关系往往会让调解大师——医生、医院、医疗旅行运营商、公司、公司、网站,最重要的是,医疗专业知识和技术——在分析和解释的画布上哑然失声。鉴于此,这篇文章不仅建议“医疗旅游”这个词需要仔细审查,需要作为一个更长的谱系和更大的背景的一部分,包括各种跨国、跨文化和跨地区的医疗旅行,而且它还呼吁重新审视这个词所产生的道德剧,其中包括问吸血鬼是否也可能是受害者,当生物医学边缘(大陆水疗/库尔/库尔/特马斯)和替代医学系统(例如,阿育吠陀和其他疗法)发挥作用时,或者当医生和治疗师为医疗/治疗专业知识而旅行时,这种二元结构会发生什么?
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The Hospitality of Ghosts: Remembering Epidemics in Modern Bengal, c. 1880–1980 鬼魂的好客:忆起现代孟加拉的流行病,约1880-1980
IF 0.5 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430231183507
P. Mukharji
Memory studies have long demonstrated the need to critically assess the way societies remember significant, and particularly traumatic, events. The overwhelming focus of these studies has been on conquests, political riots, wars and holocausts. Very little account has been taken of the way epidemics are remembered. Yet, epidemics produce similar social disruptions and anxieties about the future as the varied episodes of political violence. Societies need to grapple with loss of life, grief, insecurity and their own reproduction through the stabilization of mnemonic frames. One of the most potent forms of social memory is engendered in ghost lore. In this article, I track one set of such ghost stories circulating in Bengal in the wake of the ravages of cholera and malaria in the late nineteenth century. By tracking the reframing of these stories, I show how the meanings and values conveyed through them changed over nearly a century. I argue that since the very basis and structure of the social collective invoked and reflected in these stories changed in the period, it is better to think of the collectives as multiple spectral communities sharing the same historical trauma rather than a single, unchanging society. Finally, I urge historians to rethink when epidemics end by paying greater attention to their long mnemonic and social afterlives that continue to unfold long after the cessation of the biological events.
长期以来,记忆研究一直表明,有必要对社会记忆重大事件(尤其是创伤性事件)的方式进行批判性评估。这些研究的主要焦点是征服、政治骚乱、战争和大屠杀。很少有人考虑到人们对流行病的记忆方式。然而,流行病造成的社会混乱和对未来的焦虑与各种政治暴力事件类似。社会需要通过稳定记忆框架来应对生命的丧失、悲伤、不安全感及其自身的再现。社会记忆最有力的形式之一是源于对鬼魂的喜爱。在这篇文章中,我追踪了19世纪末霍乱和疟疾肆虐之后在孟加拉流传的一组这样的鬼故事。通过追踪这些故事的重构,我展示了通过这些故事传达的意义和价值在近一个世纪里是如何变化的。我认为,由于这些故事所唤起和反映的社会集体的基础和结构在这一时期发生了变化,因此最好将集体视为共享相同历史创伤的多个光谱社区,而不是单一的,不变的社会。最后,我敦促历史学家重新思考流行病何时结束,更多地关注其长期记忆和社会后遗症,这些后遗症在生物事件结束后很长一段时间内仍在继续展开。
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Towards an Iconography of Disease: Exploring the Gendered Worlds of the Goddesses of Epidemics 走向疾病的图像:探索流行病女神的性别世界
IF 0.5 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430231184535
M. Binny
The article tries to interrogate the gendered world of disease through an exploration of the deities associated with contagious diseases. The complex world of disease, cure and patient care was one infused with ideas of sacrality and notions of pollution and purity in the premodern period. The article will explore the anthropomorphizing of diseases into female deities at the local level and the Brahmanical attempt to transform these local goddesses. Ayurvedic works in Sanskrit, Tamil and Malayalam, talapurāṇa and folklore have been consulted to analyse the role and relevance of goddesses of disease, in addition to fieldwork in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
本文试图通过对与传染病有关的神灵的探索,来质问疾病的性别世界。在前现代时期,疾病、治疗和病人护理的复杂世界充满了神圣的观念、污染和纯洁的观念。本文将探讨疾病在地方层面拟人化为女性神,以及婆罗门试图将这些地方女神改造。除了在喀拉拉邦和泰米尔纳德邦进行实地调查外,还参考了梵语、泰米尔语和马拉雅拉姆语的阿育吠陀作品、talapurāṇa和民间传说,以分析疾病女神的作用和相关性。
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Book review: Radhika Singha, The Coolie’s Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914–1921 书评:Radhika Singha,《苦力的大战:全球冲突中的印度劳工,1914-1921》
IF 0.5 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430221120322
S. Raghavan
Radhika Singha, The Coolie’s Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914–1921, Harper Collins, New Delhi, 2020, 396pp., ₹699
拉迪卡·辛哈:《苦力的大战:全球冲突中的印度劳工,1914-1921》,哈珀·柯林斯出版社,新德里,2020年,396页。₹699
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