Book Review: Deepak Kumar and Raj Sekhar Basu,eds,Medical Encounters in British India;Samiksha Sehrawat,Colonial Medical Care in North India: Gender State and Society c. 1840–1920;Poonam Bala,ed.,Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India;and Madhuri Sharma,Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India

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Deepak Kumar and Raj Sekhar Basu, eds, Medical Encounters in British India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013, 329 pp.; Samiksha Sehrawat, Colonial Medical Care in North India: Gender State and Society c. 1840–1920, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013, 292 pp.; Poonam Bala, ed., Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India, Delhi: Primus Books, 2016, 158 pp.; and Madhuri Sharma, Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India, Delhi: Foundation Books, 2012, 177 pp.