Ranjana Saha is a Postdoctoral Fellow (History Faculty) at Manipal Centre for Humanities, MAHE, Manipal. Prior to joining MCH, she was a two-year Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. Her research has been published in national and international journals like The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Women´s Studies International Forum and South Asia Research.
Ranjana Saha is a postdoctoral teaching fellow (History Faculty) at the Manipal Centre for Humanities (MCH), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. Prior to joining MCH, she was a two-year postdoctoral research fellow at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. She completed her PhD from the Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi. Her research has been published in national and international journals such as The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Women´s Studies International Forum and South Asia Research.
Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta brings to light rare textual and visual materials on medical opinion about breastfeeding by memsahibs (European women), dais (indigenous midwives and/or wet nurses) and the bhadramahila (here the focus is on `respectable´ Bengali-Hindu women). With the help of archival resources, the author discusses themes like:
- modernity, maternities and medicine
- intersections of `race´, gender, class, caste, community, and age in diet
- artificial foods versus wet nursing
- `cleanliness´, corporeality and culture
- `clean midwifery´ versus `dirty midwifery´
- customary breastfeeding practices
- child-mothers and childcare
- breastfeeding, mothercraft and modern clocks
- exhibitions, baby shows and baby weeks
- colonialism and anti-colonial nation-building
The book offers critical insights into social histories of medicine, motherhood and childcare in nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Calcutta. It is intended for anyone interested in the book´s interdisciplinary focus on the regional, national and global resonances of childrearing advice. In particular, it will interest scholars and researchers from modern Indian history, global history, health history, medical anthropology, gender studies, and South Asian studies.
|1) This is one of the first systematic historical account of Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta. 2) It has rich archival sources like rare medical handbooks and periodicals, governmental proceedings, child welfare exhibition and conference reports, personal papers, memoirs, illustrations and advertisements. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of social history and colonial history across UK.
Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta brings to light rare textual and visual materials on medical opinions about breastfeeding by memsahibs (European women), dais (indigenous midwives and/or wet nurses) and the bhadramahila (here the focus is on `respectable´ Bengali-Hindu women). With the help of archival resources, the author discusses themes like:
- modernity, maternities and medicine
- intersections of `race´, gender, class, caste, community and age in diet
- artificial foods versus wet nursing
- `cleanliness´, corporeality and culture
- `clean midwifery´ versus `dirty midwifery´
- customary breastfeeding practices
- child-mothers and childcare
- breastfeeding, mothercraft and modern clocks
- exhibitions, baby shows and baby weeks
- colonialism and anti-colonial nation-building
The book offers critical insights into social histories of medicine, motherhood and childcare in nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Calcutta. It is intended for anyone interested in the book´s interdisciplinary focus on the regional, national and global resonances of childrearing advice. In particular, it will interest scholars and researchers from modern Indian history, global history, health history, medical anthropology, gender studies and South Asian studies.
Introduction 1. Tropicana Milk: Memsahibs, Dais and Mothering in the Tropics 2. `Indian Mothers´, Tradition and Medicine 3. Child-Mothers: `Premature Maternity´ and Infant Health 4. Midwifery, Mothercraft and the Bhadramahila 5. Modern Clocks, Maternal Breasts and Model Foods Conclusion Bibliography
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Tropicana Milk
2 Dais, Midwifery and Wet Nursing
3 `Indian Mothers´ and Modern Childcare
4 Child-Mothers and Mother India
5 The Child Welfare Exhibition, 1920
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta medical advice on breastfeeding in colonial Calcutta.
Über den Autor
Ranjana Saha is a postdoctoral teaching fellow (History Faculty) at the Manipal Centre for Humanities (MCH), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. Prior to joining MCH, she was a two-year postdoctoral research fellow at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. She completed her PhD from the Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi. Her research has been published in national and international journals such as The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Women's Studies International Forum and South Asia Research.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Tropicana Milk
2 Dais, Midwifery and Wet Nursing
3 'Indian Mothers' and Modern Childcare
4 Child-Mothers and Mother India
5 The Child Welfare Exhibition, 1920
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
