Name : Dr B. Eswara Rao Designation : Reader
Department : History
Specialization : History of Medicine and Public Health
Recent Publications:
1. “Notions of Purity and Pollution: Western Medicine and its Negotiations with the Social Body”, In: Proceedings of 66th Indian History Congress, held at Santiniketan, Viswa-bharati, 28-30 January 2006
2. “Taming Liquid Gold’ and Dam Technology: A Study of the Godavari Anicut,”, In: Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D’Souza, (ed.), The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia, Oxford University Press India (forthcoming)
3. “From Rajaskhyam (“Disease of Kings”) To “Blackman’s Plague”: Perceptions on Prevalence and Aetiology of Tuberculosis in the Madras Presidency, 1882- 1947”, Indian Economic and Social History Review (forthcoming)
