Ecology of Tuberculosis in India

1. Front Matter

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2. The Burden of Tuberculosis

   • Bikramaditya K. Choudhary

   Pages 1-24

3. Spatiality of Tuberculosis

   • Bikramaditya K. Choudhary

   Pages 25-43

4. Changing Geographies of Tuberculosis

   • Bikramaditya K. Choudhary

   Pages 45-69

5. Containing Tuberculosis During Colonial Period

   • Bikramaditya K. Choudhary

   Pages 71-90

6. Combating Tuberculosis in Independent India

   • Bikramaditya K. Choudhary

   Pages 91-111

7. Patients, Professionals and Narratives

   • Bikramaditya K. Choudhary

   Pages 113-141

8. Tuberculosis: A Medical Mirage

   • Bikramaditya K. Choudhary

   Pages 143-157

9. Back Matter

   Pages 159-161

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The book addresses the issue of disease diffusion across the geographical span of India during the colonial period. Based on archival records, it analyses colonial economic policies and their implications for the spread of the disease across different regions of India as well as the role of the military in disease spread. It adds a new dimension to the understanding of the spread of TB in colonial India.


The book also discusses the concept of the meaning of illness for different cohorts of TB patients. Based on narratives, it brings to readers the social and cultural dimensions that are responsible for the prevalence of the disease, despite having vaccination and medication available for more than half a century.


The book will be beneficial to health and medical geographers and will bring new insights in historical geography as well as the history of medicine, by incorporating policy changes and their implication in disease spread.Sociologists and public health professionals will find narratives of patients interesting and useful for furthering their understanding.

• Political Ecology
• Treatment Seeking
• Meaning of Illness
• Tuberculosis (TB) in India
• DOTS (Directly Observed Therapy, short-term)
• RNTCP (Revised National TB Control Programme)
• Stigmatization
• Disease diffusion
• medical geography
• historical geography

• Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

  Bikramaditya K. Choudhary

Bikramaditya K. Choudhary teaches at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University since May 2013. Prior to joining JNU, he taught for about 9 years at Banaras Hindu University. He has over two dozen publications in different Journals and Books on issues of political ecology, development, informal economy, waste-pickers, history of tuberculosis, ecology of disease, regional disparity and other related issues of development. He has edited a book titled City, Space and the Politics in the Global South (Manohar 2019/Routledge2020). His current area of research includes urban services, urban identity formation and spatial segregation. Currently, he is engaged with three externally funded projects on the issue of water security, access, and transformative pathways towards urban sustainability.

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