1st Edition
Public Health and the Pandemic in Colonial Bengal An Analysis of the Spanish Influenza (1918–1920)
Chapter I: Calcutta Under Siege: Spanish Influenza in Calcutta and Beyond
Chapter II: From Calamity to Catastrophe: Spanish Influenza in Other Districts of Colonial Bengal
Chapter III: When Famine Met the Spanish Influenza
Chapter IV: Diseases, Medicine and Colonialism: Influenza and The Politics of Imperialism
Chapter V: Long-Term Consequences and Epidemiological Lessons from the 1918-19
Influenza Pandemic
Chapter VI: Summary and Conclusion
Biography
Saumitra Basu is an independent researcher in the history of science and history of medicine. He has successfully completed three projects on the history of science as a (postdoctoral) research associate in the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. He is the recipient of different national and international fellowships, including Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford, UK.
