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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- SECTION 1 Mysore -- 1 Plague administration in Princely Mysore: resistance, riots, and reconciliation -- Administrative measures to control plague -- Public resistance -- Plague and riots: the Ganjam case -- Discussion and conclusion -- 2 Addressing public health and sanitation in Mysore, 1881-1921: 'model' state and 'native' administrators -- Organization of public health administration -- Organization of Sanitary Department -- Epidemic administration: vaccination -- Administering an epidemic: the case of influenza pandemic of 1918 -- Concluding observations -- SECTION 2 The Orissan states -- 3 Princely maladies: leprosy -- 'The empire strikes back' -- Colonial 'unreason' and ways of explaining leprosy -- Leprosy: the Adivasi healing system and the Princely state of Keonjhar -- Mayurbhanj -- Conclusion -- 4 Smallpox in the Princely enclaves of Orissa -- Smallpox and the world of the tribals -- Smallpox and the colonial establishment -- The Princely states -- Gangpur -- Mayurbhanj -- Keonjhar -- Kalahandi -- Nilgiri -- Dhenkanal -- Conclusion -- SECTION 3 Travancore and Orissa -- 5 Medical developments and Western psychiatry in Travancore and Orissa -- Introduction -- A 'modern' and 'ideal' Indian state: Travancore -- Late nineteenth-century medical reforms and social stratification -- Medical reforms and funding priorities -- The role of missionaries and caste reform -- Religious welfare institutions and Brahmin privileges -- Indigenous medicine and Vaidyasalas -- Medical provision, government spending, and caste in the twentieth century -- Gender -- The lunatic asylum at Trivandrum during the late nineteenth century -- Institutional statistics and reports Psychiatric provision at Trivandrum in the early twentieth century -- Formal classification and treatment of patients -- Institutional trends and statistics -- The Orissan states - "something rotten somewhere"--Conclusion -- Index