LEADER 05715nam 22008535 450 001 9910964963103321 005 20240322062419.0 010 $a9781137270993 010 $a1137270993 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137270993 035 $a(CKB)2670000000567030 035 $a(EBL)1661545 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001378371 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11768800 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001378371 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11348811 035 $a(PQKB)11603927 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1661545 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-27099-3 035 $a(Perlego)3484974 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000567030 100 $a20151126d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVice in the Barracks $eMedicine, the Military and the Making of Colonial India, 1780-1868 /$fby E. Wald 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (286 p.) 225 1 $aCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,$x2635-1641 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781349444519 311 08$a1349444510 311 08$a9781137270986 311 08$a1137270985 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration, Currency and Military Ranks; Map; Introduction; Unpicking the Contagious Diseases Acts; Approaches to the European soldier; (Re)Shaping Indian health and society; Organisation and structure; 1 The East India Company, the Army and Indian Society; The East India Company and its army; Begums and Bibis; The re-construction of the ''prostitute''; Conclusion; 2 Regulating the Body: Experiments in Venereal Disease Control, 1797-1831; Medical conceptions of venereal disease 327 $aEarly experimentation with lock hospitals and regulationBalancing the budget: the costs of regulation; ''Martyrs to the effects of their licentiousness'': morality and disease; Excuses, solutions and the production of racial and cultural stereotypes; Conclusion; 3 Medicine and Disease in the ''Age of Reform''; Surgeons and administrators in the Age of ''Reform''; Essays, societies and journals; The 1831 Bengal Medical Board circular on venereal disease; Journals and venereal disease; Conclusion; 4 The Body of the Soldier and Space of the Cantonment; Intemperance and the soldier 327 $aMilitary and medical descriptions of the European soldierCanteen and cantonment: medical theories and proposals for military spaces; Ordering the cantonment: military and government regulations; Disorderly European women; Courts martial and punishment; Disgraceful and unbecoming conduct; Conclusion; 5 ''Unofficial'' Responses to Lock Hospital Closure, 1835-1868; Responses to the closure of lock hospitals in the 1830s; The dispensary and charity hospital; Working around the abolition; Wars and sanitary commissions; Conclusion; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography 327 $aIndex 330 $aShortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author. Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and alcohol-related problems holding serious implications for the economic and military performance of the East India Company. These concerns revolved around the European soldiery in India - the costly, but often unruly, 'thin white line' of colonial rule. This book examines the colonial state's approach to these vice-driven health risks. In doing so it throws new light on the emergence of social and imperial mindsets and on the empire, fuelled by fear of the lower orders, sexual deviation, disease and mutiny. An exploration of these mindsets reveals a lesser-explored fact of rule - the fractured nature of the Company state. Further, it shows how the measures employed by the state to deal with these vice-driven health problems had wide-ranging consequences not simply for the army itself but for India and the empire more broadly. 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