1st Edition
Modern Maternities Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta
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
Biography
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.
