Medical evangelism Colonial India (360G-Wellcome-203781_Z_16_Z)

My doctoral research entitled "A Woman Medical Missionary in Action: Dr. Edith Brown, A Case on the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, 1894-1947", focused on Dr.Brown as the founder of the first women’s mission hospital of Punjab. Primarily my research was on social history of women’s hospitals. It covered similar attempts of various other women medical missionaries who joined the bandwagon of opening mission hospitals exclusively for women. What caught my attention while looking up the sources was how this whole period was addressed as "Punjab and the rest", that depicted extensive missionary work intertwined with the women’s movement within and outside the Church.I am actively involved in ongoing research related to my thesis. I am extremely keen to visit the archives at Edinburgh to look up records related to women doctors of the late nineteenth century, especially the ones who joined missionary societies to work in India. A visit to the library at the Wellcome Institute will be extremely productive for my research. Needless to say, the result of this support would throw new insight on the history of missions and gender in Colonial Punjab.