The medical history of British India: a collection of official documents. (360G-Wellcome-081664_Z_06_Z)

The project aims to secure and enhance access to a collection of rare official documents relating to medicines in British India in the later 19th and early 20th century, by providing digital copies of the full texts and illustrations and enabling preservation of the originals for the future. "Disease control in British India", our previous successful Wellcome Trust-funded project, is almost complete, and the accompanying website design and creation will be ready by the end of 2006*. We would hope eventually to add all the medical material from the India Papers collection, enabling this rich, and sometimes rare, material to become widely available. This would create a huge and important resource for medical historians, as well as colonial historians and historians of South Asia. There is also interest for medical practitioners and researchers in the field, as well as some interest for the local ethnic community. We are aiming to produce preservation microfilm copies of the material as well as digital images and to provide access to texts through a web-based feature that would enable keyword searching of full text and of title, author, location, subject category, publication date and location.