Epidemic malaria and hunger in colonial Punjab : weakened by want / Sheila Zurbrigg.

This book documents the primary role of acute hunger (semi- and frank starvation) in the 'fulminant' malaria epidemics that repeatedly afflicted the northwest plains of British India through the first half of colonial rule. Using Punjab vital registration data and regression analysis it al...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Zurbrigg, Sheila (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Social history of health and medicine in South Asia.
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