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Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. -- .

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Bhils
3. The mission to the Bhils
4. The great famine
5. The conversion of the Bhagats
6. Christian healing
7. Fighting demons
8. Woman’s work for woman
9. A little empire
10. Medicine on a shoestring and a prayer
11. A mission for a postcolonial era
12. Medical modernity
13. Closure
14. Conclusion: mission medicine and Bhil modernity
Bibliography
Index

Missionaries and their medicine

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/31/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719095399, 978-0719095399
      ISBN10: 0719095395

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. -- .

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction
      2. The Bhils
      3. The mission to the Bhils
      4. The great famine
      5. The conversion of the Bhagats
      6. Christian healing
      7. Fighting demons
      8. Woman’s work for woman
      9. A little empire
      10. Medicine on a shoestring and a prayer
      11. A mission for a postcolonial era
      12. Medical modernity
      13. Closure
      14. Conclusion: mission medicine and Bhil modernity
      Bibliography
      Index

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