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Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture This book is a cultural exploration of health and wellness, with a focus on im- pacts of Covid-19 on the population of India. The chapters in this book present original research, systematic reviews, the- oretical and conceptual frameworks, encompassing multidisciplinary, inter- and intra-disciplinary felds of study, in the context of how culture and disease suff- ciently unpack and inform each other. The book includes contributions from the social sciences and the humanities, and analyses issues that range from smallpox to the history of vaccine, indigenous healing practices, the Macbeth paradigm, Zizekian encounters, mental asylum, and marginalised genders. Using the theme of intellectual interconnectedness in the times of self-isolation and social distanc- ing, the book is a collaboration of critical thinkers who identify and visibilise the hidden global issues related to ‘disease’ and ‘health’ that have divided the world into narrow binaries – individual/society, poor/rich, proletariat/bourgeoisie, margin/centre, colonised/coloniser, servitude/liberty, and powerless/powerful. By doing so, the book emphasises the potential of holistic wellness to improve human life and humanity across the globe. A novel contribution on the cultural factors that played an important role in contemporary times of Covid-19, this book will be of interest to researchers in the felds of Cultural Studies, Health and Society, and South Asian Studies. Anindita Chatterjee (Phd) is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of English, Durgapur Government College, India. Her research in- terests centre on British Literature of the Romantic and the Victorian Period, Indian Writing in English, Films, Gender Studies, and Popular Culture, and she has published on Socialist Ecofeminism. She has also co-edited Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions. Nilanjana Chatterjee (Phd) is Assistant Professor of English at Durgapur Government College, India. She is the author of Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora (Routledge, forthcoming). Some of her ongoing projects include work on Angami Kire’s formation of digital ethnic i dentity and on women and natural resource management in Naga folktales and stories. She has co-edited Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions. Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture Can Wellness be Far Behind? Edited by Anindita Chatterjee Nilanjana Chatterjee First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Anindita Chatterjee and Nilanjana Chatterjee; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Anindita Chatterjee and Nilanjana Chatterjee to be identified as the author[/s] of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Chatterjee, Nilanjana, editor. | Chatterjee, Anindita, editor. Title: Covid-19 in India, disease, health and culture : can wellness be far behind? / edited by Nilanjana Chatterjee, and Anindita Chatterjee. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. | Series: Routledge contemporary South Asia series; 154 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022020397 (print) | LCCN 2022020398 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032292687 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032292700 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003300762 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Public health—India—History. | Medical care. | COVID-19 (Disease)—Social aspects—India. | COVID-19 (Disease)— Social aspects—South Asia. Classification: LCC RA394.6 C68 2023 (print) | LCC RA394.6 (ebook) | DDC 306.4/613—dc23/eng/20220610 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022020397 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022020398 ISBN: 978-1-032-29268-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-29270-0 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-30076-2 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003300762 Typeset in Baskerville by codeMantra “To all the passings that deserved a better goodbye.” Contents Acknowledgements xi List of illustrations xiii List of contributors xv 1 Can Wellness Be Far Behind?: Disease, Health, and Culture 1 ANINDITA CHATTERJEE AND NILANJANA CHATTERJEE SECTION I Social Science Perspective 21 2 Colonialism and Disease: Smallpox in the Aboriginal Population 23 BILL ASHCROFT 3 Vaccine Nation and Its Miserables: Bodies and Bio- citizenship in the Empire 36 MANDIRA CHAKRABORTY 4 Spaces of Cure or Confnement? Inside the Walls of the Mental Asylums of the 19th Century 50 ANINDITA CHATTERJEE 5 Žižek’s Pandemic!, the ‘New Normal’ Dilemma and Some Indian Perspectives 62 ANASUYA BHAR 6 Livelihood of Internal Migrants of India during Covid-19 Pandemic: Concerns and Measures 72 DEBASIS CHAKRABORTY
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