Social history of health and medicine in colonial Orissa. (360G-Wellcome-080352_Z_06_Z)

I am interested in collecting materials related to my current research on Indigenous Health Systems in colonial Orissa. I intend locating materials related to the princely states as well as the tracts directly held by the colonial administration. Basically my (present) project relates to exploring the world of the adibasis (viz. tribals) and the outcasters (viz. "untouchables"). This is an ignored area and normally scholars assume that Ayurvedic and Yunani systems are the indigenous systems when it comes to colonial South Asia. It is indeed amazing that the world of the adibasis and the outcastes that have intimately influenced the Ayurvedic system is not even mentioned by established historians working on themes related to the social history of health/medicine in India. I hope to collect materials related to South Asia, especially south-eastern India and see some of the tracts including the newly acquired resources at the Wellcome Library (manuscript section) that deal specifically with Orissa. Besides, I would also like to see the way the new scholarship negotiates the subject when it comes to other pars of the world. I would also like to work at the British Library (OIOC) and the SOAS Library (all London) and the Centre for Indian Studies Library at Oxford. My tentative plan is to work for 6 weeks between 1 June and 15 July 2006.