Missionaries and their medicine : a Christian modernity for tribal India

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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Bibliographic Details
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)
Subjects:
Missions and Missionaries > History > India.
Church history.
Medicine > India > Religious aspects.
Bhil (Indic people) > Missions > History > 19th century.
Bhil (Indic people) > Missions > History > 20th century.
Bhil (Indic people) > Health and hygiene > History > 19th century.
Bhil (Indic people) > Health and hygiene > History > 20th century.
Missions > India > History > 19th century.
Missions > India > History > 20th century.
Missions, Medical > India > History > 19th century.
Missions, Medical > India > History > 20th century.
Medicine > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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