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David Arnold is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Warwick, and former professor of South Asian History at SOAS. His books on medicine and the environment in British and postcolonial India include Colonizing the Body; Toxic Histories; and Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition.'Spanning two hundred years, Arnold's reflective study expertly reconstructs the dilemmas and decisions of India's ruling classes in trying conclusions with those four horsemen of the epidemiological apocalypse: cholera, plague, flu, coronavirus.'
- Pratinav Anil, Himal Southasian,
'An authoritative account of what pandemics are and how they can be understood through a historical focus on India. It brilliantly demonstrates the impossibility of grasping the novel coronavirus outside the particularities and histories of place. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding India or pandemics or both.'
- Nayanika Mathur, Associate Professor in the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford,
'A significant contribution to the social history of medicine in India—a field that the author himself has done a great deal to develop. Arnold provides a fascinating discussion about the pandemic’s medical, political and social configurations, analysing how India’s historical experience of pandemics has been applied to the present situation.'
- Benjamin Kingsbury, historian, and author of The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony,
'A powerfully argued, well-researched and well-presented study of pandemics during the British colonial and post-independence periods in India, insightfully framed within the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.'
- Michael H. Fisher, Robert S. Danforth Professor Emeritus of History, Oberlin College, and author of An Environmental History of India,