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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Arnold is a historian and has held the position of Professor of Asian and Global History at Warwick University since 2006. Previously he held the position of professor of South Asian History at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. He was one of the founding members of the subaltern studies group in the 1970s, remembered by Ranajit Guha in 1993 as "an assortment of marginalised academics". Arnold contributed seven articles in total to the publication and co-edited the eighth volume with David Hardiman in 1994. He later described this period as consisting of "the most inspiring and supportive atmosphere I have ever been in".
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- Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (1993) (380)
- The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion (1996) (203)
- Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (2000) (155)
- European orphans and vagrants in India in the Nineteenth century (1979) (105)
- "Illusory Riches": Representations of the Tropical World, 1840-1950 (2000) (105)
- Warm climates and Western medicine : the emergence of tropical medicine, 1500-1900 (1998) (95)
- Police Power and Colonial Rule: Madras 1859-1947 (1987) (82)
- Nehruvian Science and Postcolonial India (2013) (81)
- The 'discovery' of malnutrition and diet in colonial India (1994) (81)
- The politics of health in India (1989) (75)
- Telling lives in India : biography, autobiography, and life history (2004) (71)
- Gramsci and peasant subalternity in India (1984) (69)
- Agriculture and "Improvement" in Early Colonial India: A Pre- History of Development (2005) (66)
- Race, place and bodily difference in early nineteenth‐century India (2004) (65)
- The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 (2005) (62)
- India's place in the Tropical World, 1770–1930 (1998) (56)
- Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (2009) (44)
- White colonization and labour in Nineteenth‐century India (1983) (37)
- LOOTING, GRAIN RIOTS AND GOVERNMENT POLICY IN SOUTH INDIA 1918 (1979) (36)
- Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism: The 'Native-Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900: The 'Native-Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900 (2002) (33)
- Social crisis and epidemic disease in the famines of nineteenth-century India. (1993) (30)
- The Indian Ocean as a disease zone, 1500–1950.† (1991) (30)
- Decentralised governance in Asian countries (1996) (27)
- Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–44 . By Paul R. Greenough. Oxford University Press: New York, 1982. Pp. xix, 342. £29. (1984) (26)
- “Secret judgments of God”: Old World disease in colonial Spanish America (1993) (24)
- British India and the “Beriberi Problem”, 1798–1942 (2010) (23)
- Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader (1995) (22)
- Cycles of Empowerment? The Bicycle and Everyday Technology in Colonial India and Vietnam (2011) (21)
- The Armed Police and Colonial Rule in South India, 1914—1947 (1977) (20)
- Deathscapes: India in an age of Romanticism and empire, 1800–1856 (2004) (20)
- The Problem of Traffic: The street-life of modernity in late-colonial India (2011) (19)
- Medical Priorities and Practice in Nineteenth-Century British India (1985) (19)
- The place of ‘the tropics’ in Western medical ideas since 1750 (1997) (19)
- Plant Capitalism and Company Science: The Indian Career of Nathaniel Wallich* (2008) (18)
- Industrial Violence in Colonial India (1980) (16)
- Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race and Hygiene in the Philippines (2007) (16)
- The Poison Panics of British India (2016) (15)
- Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in Modern India (2016) (15)
- Global goods and local usages: the small world of the Indian sewing machine, 1875–1952 (2011) (15)
- Sexually transmitted diseases in nineteenth and twentieth century India. (1993) (14)
- Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in Alaska Theodore Catton (1999) (13)
- Caste Associations in South India: A Comparative Analysis (1976) (13)
- DEATH AND THE MODERN EMPIRE: THE 1918–19 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IN INDIA (2019) (13)
- Introduction: tropical medicine before Manson. (1996) (13)
- Burning Issues: Cremation and Incineration in Modern India (2016) (12)
- Pandemic India: Coronavirus and the Uses of History (2020) (11)
- Health, medicine and empire: perspectives on colonial India (2002) (11)
- Introduction: Disease, medicine and empire (2017) (11)
- Diabetes in the Tropics: Race, Place and Class in India, 1880–1965 (2009) (10)
- Crisis and contradiction in India's public health. (1994) (9)
- Islam, the Mappilas and peasant revolt in Malabar (1982) (8)
- Colonial Medicine in Transition: Medical Research in India, 1910-47 (1994) (7)
- Pollution, toxicity and public health in metropolitan India, 1850–1939 (2013) (7)
- Envisioning the Tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848-1850 (2005) (7)
- The medicalization of poverty in colonial India (2012) (7)
- The looming epidemic: the impact of HIV and AIDS in India (2000) (7)
- Globalization and Contingent Colonialism: Towards a transnational history of “British” India (2015) (6)
- Moral Foods (2019) (6)
- In search of rational remedies: Homeopathy in ninettenth century Bengal (2002) (5)
- Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts (review) (2010) (5)
- Tropical Governance: Managing Health in Monsoon Asia, 1908-1938 (2009) (5)
- Salutation and Subversion: Gestural Politics in Nineteenth-Century India (2009) (4)
- The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 3, Part 5: Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (2000) (4)
- Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947, by Durba Ghosh (2018) (4)
- The rise of western medicine in India (1996) (3)
- Western medicine in an Indian environment (2000) (3)
- Poor Europeans in India, 1750-1947 (1979) (3)
- Narrativizing Nature: India, Empire, and Environment (2015) (3)
- Vagrant India:: Famine, Poverty, and Welfare under Colonial Rule (2014) (3)
- 5. The Good, the Bad, and the Toxic: Moral Foods in British India (2020) (2)
- Disease, Rumor, and Panic in India’s Plague and Influenza Epidemics, 1896–1919 (2015) (2)
- Britain, Europe and the world, 1871-1971 (1973) (2)
- Subaltern Streets: (2019) (2)
- Technologies of the steam age (2000) (2)
- On the road: a social itineration of India (2014) (2)
- Leprosy: From ‘Imperial Danger’ to Postcolonial History – An Afterword (2017) (2)
- Food Riots Revisited: Popular Protest and Moral Economy in Nineteenth-Century India (2000) (2)
- An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century, by Michael H. Fisher (2020) (1)
- Medicine in an Age of Commerce & Empire (2011) (1)
- Labouring for the Raj: Convict Work Regimes in Colonial India, 1836–1939 (2015) (1)
- Studies on Indian Medical History . Edited by G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk. Groningen: Egbett Forsten, 1987. viii, 247 pp. $39.00. (1990) (1)
- Picturing Plague: Photography, Pestilence and Cremation in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century India (2021) (1)
- 6. Disease, Resistance, and India’s Ecological Frontier, 1770–1947 (2017) (1)
- Police power and the demise of British rule in India, 1930–47 (2017) (1)
- The Travelling Eye: British Women in Early Nineteenth-Century India (2018) (1)
- South Asian Studies: Britain and the Burden of Alterity (2017) (1)
- Pratik Chakrabarti, Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century (2011) (1)
- Epidemics in the Past and Now: A roundtable on colonial and postcolonial history (2021) (1)
- In the shadow of the tropics: climate, race and biopower in nineteenth century Ceylon (2009) (1)
- A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay by Preeti Chopra (review) (2014) (1)
- Book Review:Climates and Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment, and British Imperialism in India, 1600-1850 Mark Harrison (2000) (1)
- The U.S. Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest: A History, by Gerald W. Williams . Foreword by Mike Dombeck . Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009; 448 pp.; photographs, appendix, index; paperbound, $29.95. (2011) (1)
- How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise, by Ornit Shani (2019) (1)
- Epidemic Smallpox in India (2012) (1)
- VAGUENESS, AUTONOMY, AND R V BROWN (2015) (0)
- Science under the company (2000) (0)
- Chapter 9 – The Early Modern Period (1600-1750) – Europe – Phase 2: The New Science of the Seventeenth Century & The Enlightenment (2017) (0)
- The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700, by Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris and Sok Chul Hong (2014) (0)
- Review of Decolonizing international health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65, by Amrith, S. S. (2009) (0)
- Connie Y. Chiang . Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast. Foreword by William Cronon . (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books.) Seattle : University of Washington Press . 2008 . Pp. xviii, 282. $35.00. (2010) (0)
- Review of Representing rebellion: visual aspects of counter-insurgency in colonial India by Rycroft, D. J. (2009) (0)
- Fire, Forest, City: A Social Ecology of Fire in British India (2019) (0)
- Review of Biomedicine as a contested site: some revelations in imperial contexts by Bala, Poonam (ed.) (2009) (0)
- Science and the Colonial War-State: British India, 1790–1820 (2013) (0)
- Introduction: poison traces (2016) (0)
- Connie Y. Chiang. Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast., William Cronon (2010) (0)
- Studies on Indian Medical History . Edited by Meulenbeld G. Jan and Wujastyk Dominik. Groningen: Egbett Forsten, 1987. viii, 247 pp. $39.00. (1990) (0)
- Jen Corrinne Brown. Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West. (2016) (0)
- ReviewEnvironment and Empire, William Beinart, Lotte Hughes, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2007), xiv + 395 pages, £35 hardback (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Sunil S. Amrith, Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930—65, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. xiii + 261; £50.00 hbk; ISBN 1 4039 8593 6 (2009) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Douglas M. Haynes.IMPERIAL MEDICINE: PATRICK MANSION AND THE CONQUEST OF TROPICAL DISEASE. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. (2003) (0)
- A Dangerous Idea: The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights (2015) (0)
- Of Prisons, Tropics and Bicycles: A Conversation with David Arnold (2010) (0)
- The Bicycle: Towards a Global History by Paul Smethurst (review) (2016) (0)
- The science and medicine of colonial India (2021) (0)
- Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756–1895 . By Paul C. Winther. pp. xviii, 427. Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2003. (2004) (0)
- Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease by Alexander R. Bay (review) (2013) (0)
- Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration ed. by Ronit Ricci (review) (2018) (0)
- Review of From western medicine to global medicine: the hospital beyond the west, by Harrison, M., et al. (eds.) (2010) (0)
- Empire's garden: Assam and the making of India – By Jayeeta Sharma (2012) (0)
- Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race. By Nancy Shoemaker. (2016) (0)
- Representing rebellion: visual aspects of counter‐insurgency in colonial India (2009) (0)
- Book Reviews (2005) (0)
- The Roots of the Periphery: A History of the Gonds of Deccan India, by Bhangya Bhukya (2018) (0)
- Review of Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race and hygiene in the Philippines, by Anderson, W. (2007) (0)
- Review of Indian ink: script and print in the making of the English East India Company by Ogborn, Miles (2009) (0)
- Making Seafood Sustainable: American Experiences in Global Perspective (2013) (0)
- Book review symposium: Duncan, J.S. 2007: In the shadow of the tropics: climate, race and biopower in nineteenth century Ceylon. Aldershot: Ashgate (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Boyd, Ames, and Johnson, Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia, by David Arnold (2015) (0)
- Janet Weston, Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s: Diagnosing Deviance (London: (2018) (0)
- Jharna Gourlay. Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj . Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xii, 305. $99.95. ISBN 0-7546-3364-0. (2005) (0)
- Western Medicine and Colonial Society: hospitals of Calcutta, c. 1757–1860 (2018) (0)
- Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration. Edited by Ronit Ricci (2016) (0)
- Burning the Dead (2021) (0)
- Biography and Homoeopathy in Bengal: Colonial Lives of a European Heterodoxy Short Title: Biography and Homoeopathy in Bengal (2014) (0)
- The evidence for precolumbian indigo in the new world (1987) (0)
- Medicine, disease and ecology in colonial India: the Deccan plateau in the 19th century – By Laxman D. Satya (2010) (0)
- Book Reviews (2005) (0)
- The South Asia Archive, Taylor & Francis, 2013, www.southasiarchive.com (2013) (0)
- Decoding the Stories We Tell about the Past (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews: From western medicine to global medicine: the hospital beyond the west (2010) (0)
- Review of Aguilar, When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation. (2007) (0)
- Remaking the Hindu pyre (2020) (0)
- The environment and world history (2009) (0)
- Review: Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization by Brian Fagan (2018) (0)
- Introduction: science, colonialism and modernity (2000) (0)
- Polluted places, poisoned lives (2016) (0)
- The Arboreal Empire and the 'Parliament of Things': Australian Trees in Colonial South India (2020) (0)
- Review of Medicine, disease and ecology in colonial India: the Deccan plateau in the 19th century, by Arnold, D. E. (2010) (0)
- Metallic Modern: Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka, by Nira Wickramasinghe (2015) (0)
- Toxic remedies: Poisons and medicine in Eurasian history (2022) (0)
- Roads to Freedom: Prisoners in colonial India by Mushirul Hasan (review) (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (2009) (0)
- Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. The New Cambridge History of India , Vol. III, bk. 5. By David Arnold. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 234 pp. $59.95 (cloth). (2001) (0)
- Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890–1940: Contagions of Feeling by Srirupa Prasad (review) (2016) (0)
- Valerie Anderson. Race and Power in British India: Anglo-Indians, Class and Identity in the Nineteenth Century. London: I. B. Tauris, 2015. Pp. xv + 324. $95.00 (cloth). (2016) (0)
- Commentary on Thomas S. Mullaney, “Controlling the Kanjisphere,” and Antonia Finnane, “Cold War Sewing Machines” (2016) (0)
- Review Essay: In Search of the Global Gandhi (2020) (0)
- Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta, by Debjani Bhattacharyya (2019) (0)
- Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease (review) (2004) (0)
- Hugh Cagle, Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–1700 (2019) (0)
- Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal by Noémi Tousignant (review) (2019) (0)
- Review of Medicine in an age of commerce & empire, by Harrison, M. (2011) (0)
- Communication in the Colonial Era (2013) (0)
- Review: Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism: The 'Native-Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900 (2002) (0)
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