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The Last Great Plague of Colonial India 2024
The Last Great Plague of Colonial India is a 2024 work by historian Natasha Sarkar that explores the third plague pandemic's impact on colonial India. Published by Oxford University Press, it analyzes how bubonic plague spread and how colonial officials, doctors, and local populations reacted. The book looks at political, social, economic, medical, and demographic aspects of the outbreak. It received the 2025 British in India Book Prize, awarded to first- or second-time authors for historical studies on British South Asia.
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198873228
