UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
| Dr. Sanjoy Bhattacharya Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine University College London Euston House London NW1 1AD England, UK. Tel: (+44 207) 6798155 Fax: (+44 207) 6798192 Email: sanjoy.bhattacharya@ucl.ac.uk http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/ |
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Dr. Bhattacharya received a B.A. (Honours) in History from the University of Delhi (India) in 1990 and his M.A. in History from the Centre of Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India) in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London, UK) in 1996. After conducting some part-time teaching, Dr. Bhattacharya joined the Department of History at Sheffield Hallam University in 1997 with a Wellcome Trust-funded research fellowship. He moved to the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford in early 2001 but left for the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London (formerly the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine) in September of the same year, with a Lectureship.
Research interests and current research projects related to Asia:
Dr. Bhattacharya’s primary research interest lies in the history of medicine in South Asia, with particular reference to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Apart from looking at preventive and curative medicine and the development of structures of medical education and training, he is also interested in the history of international health organisations and programmes, and their activity in South Asia during the twentieth century.
Dr. Bhattacharya is completing a monograph dealing with the control and eradication of smallpox in India between 1840 and 1977, and conducting research on two other medical history/social history of medicine projects. One deals with the development of the modern hospital system in the Bombay Presidency between 1900-1950, while the other relates to the health of the South Asian migrants and minorities based in the United Kingdom during the twentieth century. Both projects are expected to result in major monographs.
Other relevant information:
Dr. Bhattacharya is also happy to be contacted by scholars who are interested in publishing in the two monograph series he helps edit: one is the New Perspectives in South Asian History series brought out by Orient Longman India Ltd., while the other is the Handbook of Oriental Studies, 2nd Section (South Asia) series published by Brill Publishers (Leiden, The Netherlands). He is, similarly, keen to hear from those interested in contributing to Wellcome History (the Wellcome Trust’s history of medicine newsletter), of which he is the editor (details about the type of articles accommodated can either be collected from him or the Wellcome Trust’s website: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/).
Recent publications:
1. Propaganda and Information in Eastern India, 1939-45: A Necessary Weapon of War (London South Asia Series: School of Oriental and African Studies and Curzon Press, 2001).
2. ‘Tackling Hunger, Disease and “Internal Security”: Official medical relief in colonial Eastern India during the Second World War, Part 2’, The National Medical Journal of India, (All India Institute of Medical Sciences: New Delhi), March-April 2002, Volume 15, Number 2, pp. 101-104.
3. ‘Tackling Hunger, Disease and “Internal Security”: Official medical relief in colonial Eastern India during the Second World War, Part 1’, The National Medical Journal of India, (All India Institute of Medical Sciences: New Delhi), January-February 2002, Volume 15, Number 1, pp. 37-40.
4. ‘Re-devising Jennerian vaccines?: European technologies, Indian innovation and the control of smallpox in South Asia, 1850-1950’, in Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison (eds.), Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India (Orient Longman: Hyderabad, 2001), pp. 217-269.
5. ‘Conflict, Shortage and Discontent: A Comparison of Indigenous Experience During the First and Second World Wars in Colonial India’, in Peter Liddle, John Bourne and Ian Whitehead (eds.), Lightning Strikes Twice, Volume 2 (Harper Collins: London, 2001), pp. 182-196.
6. ‘British Military Information Management Techniques and the South Asian Soldier: Eastern India during the Second World War’, Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge), 34, 2, 2000, pp. 483-510.
7. ‘“A Great Destiny”: The British Colonial State and the Advertisement of Post-War Reconstruction in India, 1942-45’, South Asia Research (Sage Publications: London & New Delhi), 19, 1, 1999, pp. 71-100. Co-authored with Benjamin Zachariah.
8. ‘The All India Hindu Mahasabha and the end of British Rule in India, 1939-1947’, Social Scientist (Tulika: New Delhi), 27, 7-8, 1999, pp. 48-74. Co-authored jointly with Nandini Gondhalekar.