|
Epidemics and Disease in India's Past
 Online Resrouces
May 2020
Amid a worldwide pandemic of Covid-19 that has taken the lives of thousands of people, we bring some historical resources and links on how various epidemics and diseases have affected India in its past. If you
know of any important links that are missing here, do let us know. Click on the links below to reach the resource:
(Photo credit: Doctor Simmonds injecting his curative serum in a plague patient, during the outbreak of bubonic plague in Karachi, India. Photo: Wellcome Collection gallery/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)
Plague in India
https://thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(95)90254-6.pdf
Cholera through history
https://britannica.com/science/cholera/Cholera-through-history
1903: Story of an epidemic in Kashmir
https://greaterkashmir.com/news/opinion/1903-story-of-an-epidemic-in-kashmir/
Public Health in British India: A Brief Account of the History of Medical Services and Disease Prevention in Colonial India
http://medind.nic.in/iaj/t09/i1/iajt09i1p6.pdf
Smallpox Eradication in India, 1972-1977: India Engages the Pandemic
https://www.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/smallpox-eradication-india/indian-engages-pandemic
A visual history of pandemics
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/a-visual-history-of-pandemics
Quarantine, pilgrimage, and colonial trade: India 1866-1900, Mark Harrison
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001946469202900201?journalCode=iera
Empire of the Hajj: Pilgrims, Plagues, and Pan-Islam under British Surveillance,1865-1926, Michael Christopher Low
https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=history_theses
The Black Death in Medieval India: a Historical Mystery
https://medievalists.net/2012/10/the-black-death-in-medieval-india-a-historical-mystery/
Forgotten history of Spanish Flu-the epidemic that shook Gurugram in 1918
https://hindustantimes.com/cities/forgotten-history-of-spanish-flu-the-epidemic-that-shook-gurugram-in-1918/story-igZY3NSbaJe7IxBRvTNHxH.html
How the Spanish flu of 1918 changed India
https://caravanmagazine.in/history/spanish-flu-1918-changed-india
The 1957 Pandemic of Influenza in India, IGK Menon
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/265321/PMC2537734.pdf
The Smallpox Goddess of Malabar
https://historyofvaccines.org/content/smallpox-epidemic-india
https://livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/the-cold-ones-india-s-epidemic-goddesses-11587104247592.html
Epidemics in Colonial Punjab, Sasha Tandon
https://punjab.global.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/sitefiles/journals/volume20/10-Sasha%2020.pdf
Cholera outbreak in a village in south India – Timely action saved lives
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876034112001062
Infectious Disease Outbreaks in India- Challenges and opportunities
https://sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/infectious-diseases-blog/infectious-disease-outbreaks-india-challenges-and-opportunities
How humans have reacted to pandemics through history, A visual guide
https://theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2020/apr/29/how-humans-have-reacted-to-pandemics-through-history-a-visual-guide
Epidemiological profile of India: Historical and contemporary perspectives
https://ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/jbsc/026/04/0437-0464
Epidemics and Pandemics in India throughout History: A Review Article
https://researchgate.net/publication/336061202_Epidemics_and_Pandemics_in_India_throughout_History_A_Review_Article
The Surat Plague and its Aftermath, Godshen Robert Pallipparambil
http://montana.edu/historybug/yersiniaessays/godshen.html
Recalling history's 10 deadliest diseases that came before the coronavirus
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/recalling-historys-10-deadliest-diseases-that-came-before-the-coronavirus/articleshow/74424359.cms
Pandemics of the Past
https://indiatoday.in/india-today-insight/story/coronavirus-pandemics-of-the-past-1656730-2020-03-18
Social crisis and epidemic disease in the famines of nineteenth-century India, Arnold D (Social History Medicine)
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11639287
Coronavirus: What India can learn from the deadly 1918 flu, Soutik Biswas
https://bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-51904019
History of Epidemics in India Since the 1900s
https://jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/history-of-epidemics-in-india-since-the-1900s-1584627562-1
The evolution of pandemic influenza: evidence from India, 1918–19, Siddharth Chandra & Eva Kassens-Noor
https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2334-14-510
Why 1918 matters in India’s corona war, Ajai Sreevatsan
https://livemint.com/news/world/why-1918-matters-in-india-s-corona-war-11584033795146.html
India's Tumultuous History of Epidemics, Religion and Public Health Policy, Kiran Kumbhar
https://thewire.in/health/india-epidemics-religion-public-health-policy
Plague: Medical History of British India
https://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/plague.html
History of Epidemics in India since 1900
https://youtube.com/watch?v=K-B-CfSNoFc
Cholera and Colonialism in British India, David Arnold
https://jstor.org/stable/650982
A 123-year-old law, once used to imprison freedom fighters, is India’s primary weapon against coronavirus
https://qz.com/india/1820143/india-battles-coronavirus-with-british-era-epidemic-diseases-act/
Lessons from the Bubonic Plague of 1896, Monidipa Bose Dey
https://livehistoryindia.com/history-daily/2020/03/24/lessons-from-the-bubonic-plague-of-1897
This list is in progress.
Please let us know if you know of some good archive on the Internet
which concerns us and we may have missed. Please report if you find any dead
links. |
