Rohan Deb Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rohan Deb Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rohan Deb |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6836-990X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonize Mosquitoes: Invisible Labour, Dissent and the Re-colonial in South Asia
This article contributes to a dialogue between current decolonizing insights and the history of insects. It focusses on mosquitoes— miniscule vectors of spectacular diseases. Whilst foregrounding the prominence of the colonized in shaping the history of mosquitoes in South Asia, this article combines three distinct lines of decolonizing scholarship that are usually pursued independently of one another: critique of colonial knowledge; examination …
White Ants: Biotic Borders to Biocultural Frontiers
Establishing biotic borders was part and parcel of empire building. The question of which kinds of biological species were permitted to make their way into North American and West European territories shaped transregional border control in the imperial age. Biotic borders were intensely biocultural in that stereotypes around race and ethnic differences shaped them. Drawing on examples from the history of white ants (also known as termites) in the…
White Ants, Empire, and Entomo-Politics in South Asia
By focusing on the history of white ants in colonial South Asia, this article shows how insects were ubiquitous and fundamental to the shaping of British colonial power. British rule in India was vulnerable to white ants because these insects consumed paper and wood, the key material foundations of the colonial state. The white ant problem also made the colonial state more resilient and intrusive. The sphere of strict governmental intervention wa…
Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History
This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the 'medical', in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh
Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909
welcomed me during my visits to New Delhi. I am always
Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences by Projit Bihari Mukharji
Reviewed by: Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences by Projit Bihari Mukharji Rohan Deb Roy Projit Bihari Mukharji. Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xi + 374 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-226-38313-2). Historians of British India have predominantly examined the role of the colonial state in the making and deployment of modern medicine. …
Quinine, mosquitoes and empire: Reassembling malaria in British India, 1890–1910
The drug quinine figured as an object of enforced consumption in British India between the late 1890s and the 1910s, when the corresponding diagnostic category malaria itself was redefined as a mosquito-borne fever disease. This article details an overlapping milieu in which quinine, mosquitoes and malaria emerged as intrinsic components of shared and symbiotic histories. It combines insights from new imperial histories, constructivism in the his…
Science, medicine and new imperial histories
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Of Prisons, Tropics and Bicycles: A Conversation with David Arnold
of Warwick remains one of the most prolific historians of colonial medicine and modern South Asia. A founding member of the subaltern studies collective, he is considered widely as a pioneer in the histories of colonial medicine, environment, penology, hunger and famines within South Asian studies and beyond. In this interview he recalls his formative inspirations, ideological motivations and reflects critically on his earlier works, explaining v…
White Ants, Empire, and Entomo-Politics in South Asia
By focusing on the history of white ants in colonial South Asia, this article shows how insects were ubiquitous and fundamental to the shaping of British colonial power. British rule in India was vulnerable to white ants because these insects consumed paper and wood, the key material foundations of the colonial state. The white ant problem also made the colonial state more resilient and intrusive. The sphere of strict governmental intervention wa…
Quinine, mosquitoes and empire: Reassembling malaria in British India, 1890–1910
The drug quinine figured as an object of enforced consumption in British India between the late 1890s and the 1910s, when the corresponding diagnostic category malaria itself was redefined as a mosquito-borne fever disease. This article details an overlapping milieu in which quinine, mosquitoes and malaria emerged as intrinsic components of shared and symbiotic histories. It combines insights from new imperial histories, constructivism in the his…
Decolonize Mosquitoes: Invisible Labour, Dissent and the Re-colonial in South Asia
This article contributes to a dialogue between current decolonizing insights and the history of insects. It focusses on mosquitoes— miniscule vectors of spectacular diseases. Whilst foregrounding the prominence of the colonized in shaping the history of mosquitoes in South Asia, this article combines three distinct lines of decolonizing scholarship that are usually pursued independently of one another: critique of colonial knowledge; examination …
Science, medicine and new imperial histories
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Of Prisons, Tropics and Bicycles: A Conversation with David Arnold
of Warwick remains one of the most prolific historians of colonial medicine and modern South Asia. A founding member of the subaltern studies collective, he is considered widely as a pioneer in the histories of colonial medicine, environment, penology, hunger and famines within South Asian studies and beyond. In this interview he recalls his formative inspirations, ideological motivations and reflects critically on his earlier works, explaining v…
Quinine, mosquitoes and empire: Reassembling malaria in British India, 1890–1910
The drug quinine figured as an object of enforced consumption in British India between the late 1890s and the 1910s, when the corresponding diagnostic category malaria itself was redefined as a mosquito-borne fever disease. This article details an overlapping milieu in which quinine, mosquitoes and malaria emerged as intrinsic components of shared and symbiotic histories. It combines insights from new imperial histories, constructivism in the his…
Science, medicine and new imperial histories
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History
This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the 'medical', in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh
Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909
welcomed me during my visits to New Delhi. I am always
Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences by Projit Bihari Mukharji
Reviewed by: Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences by Projit Bihari Mukharji Rohan Deb Roy Projit Bihari Mukharji. Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xi + 374 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-226-38313-2). Historians of British India have predominantly examined the role of the colonial state in the making and deployment of modern medicine. …
White Ants, Empire, and Entomo-Politics in South Asia
By focusing on the history of white ants in colonial South Asia, this article shows how insects were ubiquitous and fundamental to the shaping of British colonial power. British rule in India was vulnerable to white ants because these insects consumed paper and wood, the key material foundations of the colonial state. The white ant problem also made the colonial state more resilient and intrusive. The sphere of strict governmental intervention wa…
Decolonize Mosquitoes: Invisible Labour, Dissent and the Re-colonial in South Asia
This article contributes to a dialogue between current decolonizing insights and the history of insects. It focusses on mosquitoes— miniscule vectors of spectacular diseases. Whilst foregrounding the prominence of the colonized in shaping the history of mosquitoes in South Asia, this article combines three distinct lines of decolonizing scholarship that are usually pursued independently of one another: critique of colonial knowledge; examination …
White Ants: Biotic Borders to Biocultural Frontiers
Establishing biotic borders was part and parcel of empire building. The question of which kinds of biological species were permitted to make their way into North American and West European territories shaped transregional border control in the imperial age. Biotic borders were intensely biocultural in that stereotypes around race and ethnic differences shaped them. Drawing on examples from the history of white ants (also known as termites) in the…
Colonialism (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · History of Science and Medicine (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)