About the Author

Biswamoy Pati is Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi. Among his many publications on diverse aspects of colonial/postcolonial Indian history, are two collections published by Primus Books: The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (coedited with Mark Harrison, 2011) and India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism (coedited with Waltraud Ernst, 2010).