Missionaries and their medicine : a Christian modernity for tribal India / David Hardiman.

This is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and the Bhils, an Indian tribal community, in the period 1880 to 1964.

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Main Author: Hardiman, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : New York, NY : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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505 0 |a The Bhils -- The mission to the Bhils -- The great famine -- The conversion of the Bhagats -- Christian healing -- Fighting demons -- Woman's work for woman -- A little empire -- Medicine on a shoestring and a prayer -- A mission for a postcolonial era -- Medical modernity -- Closure -- Conclusion : mission medicine and Bhil modernity. 
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