Arabinda Samanta
Arabinda Samanta is Professor of History at the University of Burdwan, West Bengal. A prolific writer on the social history of epidemics and medicine in colonial India, he is the author of Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal: Social History of an Epidemic (2002); and co-editor of The Revolt of 1857: Memory, Identity, History (2009); Life and Culture in Bengal: Colonial and Post-Colonial Experiences (2011) and Research Methodology in Social Sciences: Emerging Trends (2012). He has been a Visiting...See more
Arabinda Samanta is Professor of History at the University of Burdwan, West Bengal. A prolific writer on the social history of epidemics and medicine in colonial India, he is the author of Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal: Social History of an Epidemic (2002); and co-editor of The Revolt of 1857: Memory, Identity, History (2009); Life and Culture in Bengal: Colonial and Post-Colonial Experiences (2011) and Research Methodology in Social Sciences: Emerging Trends (2012). He has been a Visiting Fellow at ZHCES, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2002), Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, UK (2003), Rockefeller Archive Center, New York, USA (2011). See less
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