Bøker av Nandini Bhattacharya

At present India is a leading producer, distributer, and consumer of generic medicines. Tracing this development, Disparate Remedies explores the integrated histories of the medical market and industrially manufactured medicines in colonial and postcolonial India, engaging with the cultures of both consumption and production.

This book focuses on eighteenth-century metropolitan and marginal voices speaking within and across national territories in this age of empire, colonialism, and slave-trading. It discusses a part of vast transformation of sensibility and techne during late eighteenth-century migrations.

Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century