Introduction : understanding epidemics, colonial encounters and communities / Poonam Bala and Russel S. Viljoen -- Quarantine, epidemics and health : framing indigenous engagements and resistance in colonial India / Poonam Bala -- The uncouth woes : the prevalence of venereal disease in the British or European troops in India circa 1864-1918 / Apalak Das -- Bubonic plague and state control in Zanzibar circa 1897-1905 / Amina Ameir Issa -- Cape of contagion : Cape Town, contagion and the curse of smallpox circa 1713, 1755, and 1767 / Russel S. Viljoen -- Measles : the undercover killer / Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Slave traders, merchants, explorers and academicians : the historiography of scientific travel from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / Matthew E. Franco -- The continuing search for green gold : quest for medical plants in the colonial period / Sohini Das -- Disease and dependency in Kweneng Botswana, circa 1880-1930 / Jeff Ramsay -- Colonialism, epidemics and the Indian experience circa 1817-1920 / Saurav Kumar Rai -- Colonisation, disease and displacement in Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Mark F. Briskey -- Epidemic and the raj : locating malarial fever in colonial Bengal / Arabinda Samanta -- Contagious labour and epidemics in colonial India and South Africa / Jacob Steere-Williams -- Epidemics and the indigenous tribes : sub-Himalayan Bengal and the Jungle Mahals circa 1860-1930 / Sahara Ahmed -- A Cinderella disease : colonialism and the spread of tuberculosis / Suvankar Dey.
"Colonial conquest and the subsequent introduction of diverse diseases has reshaped the destiny of communities around the globe for centuries. Drawing on untapped archival material on India, Africa, and Australia, these essays offer a counternarrative of events and establish important links between existing and emerging diseases in our global world"--
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