Leisure, economy and colonial urbanism: Darjeeling, 1835–1930

The Logic of Location: Malaria Research in Colonial India, Darjeeling and Duars, 1900–30

This article explores the scientific and entrepreneurial incentives for malaria research in the tea plantations of north Bengal in colonial India. In the process it highlights how the logic of 'location' emerged as the central trope through which medical experts, as well as colonial administrators and planters, defined malaria research in the region. The paper argues that the 'local' emerged as...

Darjeeling

ment. And, for the first few years, Darjeeling did make some sort of start. Houses were built, a few retired officers made their way to it, a depot for Military invalids was opened, and ? one or two Civilians and Merchants sent their families to the place. But it became evident after a time, that Darjeeling had not achieved popularity. The station increased very slowly; such institutions as are...

Spirillar Fever in Darjeeling

During the past few months there have been in the Darjeeling District small localised epidemics of fever, the diagnosis of which has presented some difficulty; some of these epidemics have presented a very high mortality. On Sept. 20th, 1912, Dr. Baldwin Seal, of Darjeeling, asked me to accompany him to Takvar Tea Garden, to see some coolies who were ill. On arrival there I obtained the followi...

Darjeeling as a Sanitarium

It is not the object of these remarks to enter into a detailed topographical and climatic description of Darjeeling?this has been done by others before?but simply to put down in a few words my experience of it as a Sanitarium, as far as I have been enabled to form a judgment from the opportunities enjoyed during the last three years whilst in medical charge of it. This circumstance has also put...

Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality