Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Indian Researcher Family, Market and Homoeopathy written by Dr. Shinjini Das of the University of East Anglia, UK wins this year’s British Society of History of Science (BSHS) Pickstone Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the history of science and medicine in English.
New Delhi, 15th July: Dr. Shinjini Das of University of East Anglia has made history by becoming the first Indian to receive the British Society of History of Science’s (BSHS) prestigious John Pickstone Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the history of science and medicine in English.
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Lecturer in Modern Extra-European History, School of History, University of East Anglia has been awarded the 2020 John Pickstone Prize for her book Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homoeopathy by the British Society for History of Science.
Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homoeopathy explores how colonized populaces negotiated with and reshaped western medicine. It examines the interactions between the British state, Indian nationalist cultures and indigenous commercial interests relating to public health governance in India. Combining insights from the history of colonial medicine and the cultural histories of the family in British India, the book examines the processes through which Western homoeopathy was translated and indigenised in the colony as a symbol of Indian nationalism, a specific Hindu religious worldview, an economic vision and a disciplining regimen of everyday life.
The BSHS Pickstone Prize is awarded every two years and reflects the Society’s mission to promote excellence in the history of science, technology and medicine. Indian Researcher The prize was established to honour the late historian of science Professor John Pickstone (1944-2014).
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Selecting the book for this prize, the judging panel has commented, ‘This outstanding book uncovers the archives that tell the story about how homoeopathy was brought to Bengal in the British colonial period. It is a highly sophisticated work and its development of the concept of the vernacular potentially transforms old debates about lay and professional discourses of science. Indian Researcher It blends questions of nationalism, regionalism, modernity and tradition with great aplomb, and develops the nexus of family and state as a site for science. Das’s research exemplifies how much the discipline has to gain from research on the global south as a means to understand the nature of our own knowledge as well as that of science.’
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Dr. Shinjini Das is a historian of British Imperialism and Modern South Asia, with wide-ranging research and teaching interests in histories of South Asia, colonial science and medicine, and (more recently) colonial Christianity. Her current research provisionally titled Healing Heathen Lands: Christianity, Medicine, Empire critically analyses the role of British Protestant missions and transnational humanitarianism in the making of colonial public health in India.
About the University of East Anglia
University of East Anglia has been ranked 23rd by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020 and within the world top 200 by the Times Higher Education World Rankings 2020. It is considered as a research-intensive institution and is ranked in the world’s top 100 for citations and 10th in the UK for quality of research outputs (Times Higher REF 2014 analysis).
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Request NowA vibrant and diverse institution, UEA is based in Norwich, a UNESCO City of Literature and the campus is set in 320 acres of lush, green parkland just three miles from the city center. UEA a leading member of Norwich Research Park, one of Europe’s biggest concentrations of researchers in the fields of environment, health and plant science. The institution is also renowned for its tuition and research in fields such as computer science, business and economics, literature and creative writing, film studies, law and international development.
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