DAVID ARNOLD: THE WORKS (January 2011)
Books
The Congress in Tamilnad: Nationalist Politics in South India, 1919-1937 (London,
Curzon Press; Delhi, Manohar, 1977),
The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600 (London, Methuen, 1983; reprinted 1994;
Portuguese and Chinese translations; second, enlarged edition, London,
Routledge, 2002)
Police Power and Colonial Rule: Madras, 1859-1947 (New Delhi, Oxford University
Press, 1986)
Famine: Social Crisis and Historical Change (Oxford, Blackwell, 1988)
Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century
India (Berkeley, University of California Press; New Delhi, Oxford University
Press, 1993)
The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and the Expansion of Europe (Oxford,
Blackwell, 1996; Japanese, Spanish and Korean translations)
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (New Cambridge History of
India III: 5) (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Gandhi (Harlow, Longman, 2001; Portuguese translation 2002)
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856
(Delhi, Permanent Black, 2005; Seattle, University of Washington Press,
2006)
Sudasien (Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte Band 11) (Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer
Verlag, 2011)
Books edited
Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies (Manchester, Manchester University
Press, 1988; New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989)
(with Peter Robb) Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader (London,
Curzon Press, 1993)
(with David Hardiman) Subaltern Studies VIII: Essays in Honour of Ranajit Guha
(New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1994)
(with Ramachandra Guha) Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the
Environmental History of South Asia (New Delhi, Oxford University Press,
1995)
Warm Climates and Western Medicine: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 15001900 (Amsterdam, Rodophi, 1996)
(with Christopher Shackle) SOAS since the Sixties (London, SOAS, 2003)
(with Stuart Blackburn) Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life
History (Delhi, Permanent Black; Bloomington, Indiana University Press,
2004)
A History of India, by Burton Stein; second edition, edited, revised and enlarged by
David Arnold (Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
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Articles in books and journals
‘The Gounders and the Congress: Political Recruitment in South India, 1920-37’,
South Asia, no. 4, 1974, 1-20
(with Robin Jeffrey and James Manor), ‘Caste Associations in South India: A
Comparative Analysis’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 13: 3,
1976, 353-73
‘The Police and Colonial Control in South India’, Social Scientist, no. 48, 1976, 3-16
‘The Armed Police and Colonial Rule in South India, 1914-1947’, Modern Asian
Studies, 11: 1, 1977, 101-25
‘The Politics of Coalescence: The Congress in Tamilnad’, in D. A. Low (ed.),
Congress and the Raj: Facets of the Indian Struggle, 1917-47, London,
Heinemann, 1977, 259-88
(reprinted New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2005)
‘Labour Relations in a South Indian Sugar Factory, 1937-1939’, Social Scientist, no.
65, 1977, 16-33
‘European Orphans and Vagrants in India in the Nineteenth Century’, Journal of
Imperial and Commonwealth History, 7: 2, 1979, 104-27
‘Dacoity and Rural Crime in Madras, 1860-1940’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 6: 2,
1979, 140-67
‘Looting, Grain Riots and Government Policy in South India, 1918’, Past and
Present, no. 84, 1979, 111-45
‘External Factors in the Partition of East Africa’, in M. H. Y. Kaniki (ed.), Tanzania
Under Colonial Rule, London, Longman, 1980, 51-85
‘Industrial Violence in Colonial India’, Comparative Studies in Society and History,
22: 2, 1980, 234-55
‘Rebellious Hillmen: The Gudem-Rampa Risings, 1839-1924’, in Ranajit Guha (ed.),
Subaltern Studies I, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1982, 88-142
(abridged version in Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (ed.), Nationalist Movement in
India: A Reader, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2009, 109-18)
‘Islam, the Mappilas and Peasant Revolt in Malabar’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 9:
4, 1982, 255-65
‘White Colonization and Labour in Nineteenth-Century India’, Journal of Imperial
and Commonwealth History, 11: 2, 1983, 133-58
‘Gramsci and Peasant Subalternity in India’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 1984, 155-77
(reprinted in Vinayak Chaturvedi (ed.), Mapping Subaltern Studies and the
Postcolonial, London, Verso, 2000, 24-49; Italian translation 2011)
‘Famine in Peasant Consciousness and Peasant Action: Madras, 1876-78’, in Ranajit
Guha (ed.), Subaltern Studies III, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984,
62-115
‘Sitarama Raju’s Rebellion: A Response’, Social Scientist, 13: 4, 1985, 44-9
‘Crime and Crime Control in Madras, 1858-1947’, in Anand A. Yang (ed.), Crime
and Criminality in British India, Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1985,
62-88
‘Bureaucratic Recruitment and Subordination in Colonial India: The Madras
Constabulary, 1859-1947’, in Ranajit Guha (ed.), Subaltern Studies IV, New
Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985, 1-53
‘Medical Priorities and Practice in Nineteenth-Century British India’, South Asia
Research, 5: 2, 1985, 167-83
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‘Cholera and Colonialism in British India’, Past and Present, no. 113, 1986, 118-51
‘Introduction: Disease, Medicine and Empire’ and ‘Smallpox and Colonial Medicine
in Nineteenth-Century India’, in David Arnold (ed.), Imperial Medicine and
Indigenous Societies, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1988, 1-26,
45-65
(latter reprinted in David Arnold and Peter Robb eds, Institutions and
Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader, London, Curzon Press, 1993, 224-44)
‘Touching the Body: Perspectives on the Indian Plague, 1896-1900’, in Ranajit Guha
(ed.), Subaltern Studies V, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1988, 55-90
(reprinted in Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Spivak (eds), Selected Subaltern
Studies, New York, Oxford University Press, 1988, 391-426)
‘The Congress and the Police’, in Mike Shepperdson and Colin Simmons (eds), The
Indian National Congress and the Political Economy of India, 1885-1985,
Aldershot, Avebury, 1988, 208-30
‘Quit India in Madras: Hiatus or Climacteric?’, in Gyanendra Pandey (ed.), The
Indian Nation in 1942, Calcutta, K. P. Bagchi, 1988, 207-22
‘Cholera Mortality in British India, 1817-1947’, in Tim Dyson (ed.), India’s
Historical Demography: Studies in Famine, Disease and Society, London,
Curzon, 1989, 261-84
‘The Ecology and Cosmology of Disease in the Banaras Region’, in Sandria Freitag
(ed.), Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and
Environment, 1800-1980, Berkeley, University of California Press,
1989, 246-67
‘The Indian Ocean as a Disease Zone, 1500-1950’, South Asia, 1991, 1-21
‘Police Power and the Demise of British Rule in India, 1930-47’, in David M.
Anderson and David Killingray (eds), Policing and Decolonisation: Politics,
Nationalism, and the Police, 1917-65, Manchester, Manchester University
Press, 1992, 42-61
‘Diseases of the Modern Period in South Asia’, in Kenneth F. Kiple (ed.), The
Cambridge World History of Human Disease, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1993, 418-25
‘Medicine and Colonialism’, in W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (eds), Companion
Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine, London, Routledge, 1993, vol. 2,
1393-1416
‘Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India’,
Genitourinary Medicine, no. 69, 1993, 3-8
‘Social Crisis and Epidemic Diseases in the Famines of Nineteenth-Century India’,
Social History of Medicine, 6: 3, 1993, 385-404
‘The Colonial Prison: Power, Knowledge and Penology in Nineteenth-Century India’,
in David Arnold and David Hardiman (eds), Subaltern Studies VIII, New
Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1994, 148-87
(reprinted in Ranajit Guha ed., A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995,
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, 140-78)
‘The “Discovery” of Malnutrition and Diet in Colonial India’, Indian Economic and
Social History Review, 31: 1, 1994, 1-26
‘Public Health and Public Power: Medicine and Hegemony in Colonial India’, in
Dagmar Engels and Shula Marks (eds), Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State
and Society in Africa and India, London, British Academic Press, 1994, 13151 (Russian translation 2008)
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‘Crisis and Contradiction in India’s Public Health’, in Dorothy Porter (ed.), The
History of Public Health and the Modern State, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1994,
335-55
‘Colonial Medicine in Transition: Medical Research in India, 1910-47’, South Asia
Research, 14: 1, 1994, 10-35
(with Ramachandra Guha), ‘Introduction: Themes and Issues in the Environmental
History of South Asia’, in David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha (eds),
Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South
Asia, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1995, 1-20
(with Robert A Bickers) ‘Introduction’ to Robert A. Bickers and Rosemary Seton
(eds), Missionary Encounters: Sources and Issues, London, Curzon, 1995, 110
‘Introduction: Tropical Medicine Before Manson’, in David Arnold (ed.), Warm
Climates and Western Medicine: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 15001900, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1996, 1-19
‘The Rise of Western Medicine in India’, Lancet, 19 October 1996, 1075-8
‘Sex, State and Society: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Modern
India’, in M. Lewis, S. Bamber and M. Waugh (eds), Sex, Disease, and
Society: A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and
HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, Westport, Greenwood Press, 1997, 19-36
‘The Place of “The Tropics” in Western Medical Ideas since 1750’, Tropical
Medicine and International Health, 2: 4, 1997, 303-13
‘India’s Place in the Tropical World, 1770-1930’, Journal of Imperial and
Commonwealth History, 26: 1, 1998, 1-21
‘Définition de l’Oriental: Corps indien, corps torturé’, in Michel Porret (ed.), Le corps
violenté: Du geste a la parole, Geneva, Droz, 1998, 255-72
‘Hunger in the Garden of Plenty: The Bengal Famine of 1770’, in Alessa Johns (ed.),
Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of
Enlightenment, New York, Routledge, 1999, 81-111
‘“An Ancient Race Outworn”: Malaria and Race in Colonial India, 1860-1930’, in
Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris (eds), Race, Science and Medicine, 17001960, London, Routledge, 1999, 123-43 (Bengali translation 2009)
‘A Time for Science: Past and Present in the Reconstruction of Hindu Science, 18601920’, in Daud Ali (ed.), Invoking the Past: The Uses of History in South Asia,
New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, 156-77
‘Environmental History’ and ‘Subaltern Studies’ in Kelly Boyd (ed.), Encyclopedia of
Historians and Historical Writing, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999, vol. 1,
360-2, and vol. 2, 1152-3
‘Food Riots Revisited: Popular Protest and Moral Economy in Nineteenth-Century
India’, in Adrian Randall and Andrew Charlesworth (eds), Moral Economy
and Popular Protest: Crowds, Conflict and Authority, Basingstoke,
Macmillan, 2000, 123-46
‘“Illusory Riches”: Representations of the Tropical World, 1840-1950’, Singapore
Journal of Tropical Geography, 21: 1, 2000, 6-18
‘Disease, Resistance, and India’s Ecological Frontier, 1770-1947’, in James C. Scott
and Nina Bhatt (eds), Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge,
New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001, 186-205
(also in Biswamoy Pati (ed.), Issues in Modern Indian History: For Sumit
Sarkar, Mumbai, Popular Prakashan, 2000, 1-22)
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‘Bodies of Knowledge/Highways of Steel: Science and Technology in Modern India’,
in Ian J. Kerr (ed.), Railways in Modern India, New Delhi, Oxford University
Press, 2001, 262-7
(with Sumit Sarkar), ‘In Search of Rational Remedies: Homoeopathy in NineteenthCentury Bengal’, in Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Plural Medicine, Tradition and
Modernity, 1800-2000, London, Routledge, 2002, 40-57
(with Stuart Blackburn) ‘Introduction and Life Histories in India’, and ‘The Self and
the Cell: Indian Prison Narratives as Life Histories’, in David Arnold and
Stuart Blackburn (eds), Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and
Life History, Delhi, Permanent Black, and Bloomington, Indiana University
Press, 2004, 1-28 and 29-53
‘Race, Place and Bodily Difference in Early Nineteenth-Century India’, Historical
Research, 77, no. 196, 2004, 254-73
‘Deathscapes: India in an Age of Romanticism and Empire, 1800-1856’, NineteenthCentury Contexts, 26: 4, 2004, 339-53
(reprinted in Keith Hanley and Greg Kucich (eds), Nineteenth-Century
Worlds: Global Formations Past and Present, London, Routledge, 2008, 26579).
‘Hodgson, Hooker and the Himalayan Frontier, 1848-1850’, in David M. Waterhouse
(ed.), The Origins of Himalayan Studies: Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal
and Darjeeling, 1820-1858, Abingdon, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, 189-205
‘Wissenschaft, Kolonialismus und Moderne’ (German translation of ‘Introduction’ to
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India), in Shalini Randeria,
Martin Fuchs and Antje Linkenbach (eds), Konfigurationen der Moderne:
Diskurse zu Indien, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2004, 389-405
‘Europe, Technology, and Colonialism in the 20th Century’, History and Technology,
21: 1, 2005, 85-106
‘Agriculture and “Improvement” in Early Colonial India: A Pre-History of
Development’, Journal of Agrarian Change, 5: 4, 2005, 505-25
‘Envisioning the Tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848-1850’, in
Felix Driver and Luciana Martins (eds), Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire,
Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2005, 137-55
‘Official Attitudes to Population, Birth Control and Reproductive Health in India,
1921-1946’, in Sarah Hodges (ed.), Reproductive Health in India: History,
Politics, Controversies, Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 2006, 22-50
‘India: The Contested Prison’, in Frank Dikotter and Ian Brown (eds), Cultures of
Confinement: History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America,
London, Hurst, 2007, 147-84
(with Clare Anderson), ‘Envisioning the Colonial Prison’, ibid., 304-31
‘Plant Capitalism and Company Science: The Indian Career of Nathaniel Wallich’,
Modern Asian Studies, 42: 5, 2008, 899-928
‘Vagrant India: Famine, Poverty, and Welfare under Colonial Rule’, in A. L. Beier
and Paul Ocobock (eds), Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and
Historical Perspective, Athens, Ohio University Press, 2008, 117-39
‘Salutation and Subversion: Gestural Politics in Nineteenth-Century India’, in
Michael J. Braddick (ed.), The Politics of Gesture, Past and Present
Supplement, no. 4, 2009, 191-211
‘Diabetes in the Tropics: Race, Place and Class in India, 1880-1965’, Social History
of Medicine, 22: 2, 2009, 245-61
‘In Search of the Colonial Subject’, in Andrew Willford and Eric Tagliacozzo (eds),
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Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries Between History and
Anthropology, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2009, 27-49
‘British India and the “Beriberi Problem”, 1798-1942’, Medical History, 54: 3, 2010,
295-314
Notes, Reports and Minor Works
‘Poor Europeans in India, 1750-1947’, Current Anthropology, 20: 2, 1979, 454-5
‘The Rural Roots of Political Violence in South India, 1850-1950’, in Political
Violence (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Collected Seminar Papers, no.
30), 1982, 26-32
‘The Man Behind the Film’, Marxism Today, 27: 6, 1983, 28-31
‘Smallpox and Colonial Medicine in India’, Bulletin of the Society for the Social
History of Medicine, no. 39, 1986, 32-4
‘An Indian Odyssey’, Indo-British Review, 14: 1, 1988, 11-15
‘Bodies of Knowledge/Highways of Steel’, SOAS, South Asia Newsletter, 1991, 9-11
‘South Asia since Independence’, Times Atlas of World History, 4th edn, London,
Times Books, 1993, 278-9
‘Review Article: Reading the “Oriental” Landscape’, South East Asia Research, 7: 1,
1999, 121-8
‘India: The Prisoners’ Revolt’, International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter,
no. 39, 2005, 6
‘Epidemic Smallpox in India’, Historically Speaking, 9: 7, 2008, 31-3
‘Tropical Governance: Managing Health in Monsoon Asia, 1908-1938’, Asia
Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Working Papers Series
no. 116, www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publications
‘Science as Imperial Bio-Power: Taxonomy and Toxicology in India’s Colonial
Encounter’, Community College Humanities Review, vol. 29, 2009, 9-18
‘Commentary 1: Review Symposium on J. S. Duncan, In the Shadow of the Tropics,
Progress in Human Geography, 33: 5, 2009, 714-16
‘Foreword’, to Richard Axelby and Savithri Preetha Nair with Andrew Cook, Science
and the Changing Environment in India, 1780-1920: A Guide to Source sin
the India Office Library, London, British Library, 2010, 7-8
(Rohan Deb Roy) ‘In Conversation with David Arnold’, SEPHIS e-magazine,
www.sephisemagazine.org 6: 3, 2010, 7-19
Book Reviews
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