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Pollution, toxicity and public health in metropolitan India, 1850–1939
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Arnold, David (2013) Pollution, toxicity and public health in metropolitan India, 1850–1939. Journal of Historical Geography, Volume 42 . pp. 124-133. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2013.07.002 ISSN 0305-7488.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2013.07.002
Abstract
‘Toxic discourse’ has a long history in the context of India's urban environment. Using the examples of the two leading metropolitan centres, Bombay and Calcutta, this article shows how the diverse and changing problem of pollution was identified and addressed over time. Ideas of pollution and poisoning were closely associated in the nineteenth century, and related to human as well as animal waste, and, increasingly, to industrial activity and mechanized transport. Many of these developments and their intended solutions mirrored European experience, but in India ‘pollution’ served as an environmental as well as a ritual concept: it could be deployed to exoticize and exceptionalize India or to oppose, complement and qualify the Western understanding of the term. The invocation of toxicity in colonial pharmacology and medical jurisprudence partly overlapped with the evolving environmental discourse on poisoning and pollution but became increasingly distinct from it by the early 1900s as toxicology acquired a more precise meaning and distinct technical agency.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Pollution -- India -- History, Urban sanitation -- India -- History, Environmental health -- India | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Historical Geography | ||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 0305-7488 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 42 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 124-133 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhg.2013.07.002 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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