Section: Staff Profiles

Samiksha Sehrawat

Name
Samiksha Sehrawat
Title
Lecturer in the History of Medicine and South Asia, Newcastle University
Organisation
School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Edinburgh UK
Telephone
0191 222 8262
E-Mail
URL
http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/samiksha_sehrawat
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School of Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

Samiksha's research has focused on the impact of the colonial state's policies on healthcare in India. She has explored the evolution of the twentieth century colonialhospital system in Haryana and Delhi with particular emphasis on delineating rural urban differentials in the provision of medical facilities. Her research interests include the evolution of military hospitals for Indian troops, medical professionalization in India and the environmental history of northern India. She has published articles on Delhi's history in Exploring Gender Equations: Colonial and Post-Colonial India ed. B. Pati and S. Kak (Delhi, 2005) and in Modern Asian Studies. Samiksha is currently converting her doctoral thesis into a monograph.

E-mail:  samiksha.sehrawat@ncl.ac.uk

This page was published on 30 November 2010


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