Ashok Malhotra
I am a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in colonial and postcolonial Indian history within the School of History, Anthropology, Politics and Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast. I have previously served as a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (2012-2015). I am the author of "Making British Indian Fictions, 1772-1823" which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012 and have also published articles in various peer-reviewed academic journals.
My current research project examines the ways in which medical research undertaken by the Indian Medical Service in British colonial India in the early twentieth century influenced discourses pertaining to nutrition and race in Britain, colonial India, and North America.
I have taught and developed world history and imperial history courses at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Leiciester and Queen's University Belfast. I have served as a supervisor of PhD dissertations in topics such as Indian convict labour in the Straits Settlements and British representations of Hinduism. I am open to supervising PhDs in the fields of imperial science, British representations of India, missionary networks of print, as well as more generally in the field of British imperialism in India and modern Indian history.
My current research project examines the ways in which medical research undertaken by the Indian Medical Service in British colonial India in the early twentieth century influenced discourses pertaining to nutrition and race in Britain, colonial India, and North America.
I have taught and developed world history and imperial history courses at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Leiciester and Queen's University Belfast. I have served as a supervisor of PhD dissertations in topics such as Indian convict labour in the Straits Settlements and British representations of Hinduism. I am open to supervising PhDs in the fields of imperial science, British representations of India, missionary networks of print, as well as more generally in the field of British imperialism in India and modern Indian history.
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in British India in the early twentieth century established his credentials as a medical researcher. It argues that the recognition
that McCarrison achieved in this field had more to do with the
fact that his research was conducted in a colonial non-Western
locale. McCarrison resisted the Iodine Deficiency Disease explanation for goitre and critiqued successful public health initiatives
conducted in the USA and Switzerland that involved distributing
iodised salt or iodine supplements to populations to prevent
goitre outbreaks. Thus, he created a path dependency in British
India for himself and other British researchers, as well as his junior
and affiliated Indian researchers, which impeded effective public
health initiatives to prevent goitre outbreaks in India.
station of Coonoor had become recognised as the centre for
nutritional research in India. Five years earlier, however, his institute had faced closure. This article argues that the establishment
of McCarrison’s institute was based on his pitch to the Royal
Commission on Agriculture in India in 1926, in which he successfully aligned his research to satisfy the concerns of various members of the Commission. This discussion uses McCarrison’s
lobbying for his institute as a case study to examine the broader
political manoeuvrings that colonial scientists in the early twentieth century often had to undertake to establish their
research agendas.
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in British India in the early twentieth century established his credentials as a medical researcher. It argues that the recognition
that McCarrison achieved in this field had more to do with the
fact that his research was conducted in a colonial non-Western
locale. McCarrison resisted the Iodine Deficiency Disease explanation for goitre and critiqued successful public health initiatives
conducted in the USA and Switzerland that involved distributing
iodised salt or iodine supplements to populations to prevent
goitre outbreaks. Thus, he created a path dependency in British
India for himself and other British researchers, as well as his junior
and affiliated Indian researchers, which impeded effective public
health initiatives to prevent goitre outbreaks in India.
station of Coonoor had become recognised as the centre for
nutritional research in India. Five years earlier, however, his institute had faced closure. This article argues that the establishment
of McCarrison’s institute was based on his pitch to the Royal
Commission on Agriculture in India in 1926, in which he successfully aligned his research to satisfy the concerns of various members of the Commission. This discussion uses McCarrison’s
lobbying for his institute as a case study to examine the broader
political manoeuvrings that colonial scientists in the early twentieth century often had to undertake to establish their
research agendas.