Healing Heathen Lands: Protestant Missions and Public Health in British India, 1855-1956 (360G-Wellcome-208108_Z_17_Z)

£174,774

This project will explore the role of Protestant missions in the making of British Indian public health by tracing the interactions between evangelical, colonial and vernacular sources. It will argue that Protestant missionaries in South Asia did not merely play a complementary role to imperial biomedicine. It will examine the ways in which missions contributed towards shaping colonial health policies as well as knowledge of colonial disease and treatment. The project would also explore the extent to which Indians and their knowledge was involved in medical missions. This work will add on to histories of imperial medicine, international health, global history, colonial Christianity and postcolonial studies. The key goal of the project is to produce a monograph explaining the distinctiveness and significance of Protestant missionary medicine in South Asia. The project will be contributing to the emerging literature on British voluntary religious organisations in the making of imperial public health. It will also contribute to the broader literature on the relationship of modern science and medicine with Christianity.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 174774
Applicant Surname Das
Approval Committee Medical Humanities Interview Committee
Award Date 2017-07-17T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2016/17
Grant Programme: Title Research Fellowship in H&SS
Internal ID 208108/Z/17/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Shinjini Das
Partnership Value 174774
Planned Dates: End Date 2019-03-31T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2017-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region South East
Sponsor(s) Prof Mark Harrison