Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 'The Empire is not white': Indian Doctors in Kenya; 2 Indians, Migration, and Medicine; 3 Indians, Western Medicine, and the Establishment of the Protectorate; 4 Race and Medicine; 5 Indians in the Colonial Medical Service; 6 Squeezing Indians Out of Government Medicine; 7 Indian Private Doctors in Kenya; 8 Private Doctors: Practising Medicine in a Segregated World; 9 Conclusion; Appendix 1: Indians in the Railway Medical Department; Appendix 2: Indians in the Colonial Medical Service
Appendix 3: Indian Private PractitionersAppendix 4: Statistics Concerning Indian Workers, Uganda Railways; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940. The story of these important Indian professionals presents a rare social history of an important political minority
