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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, 1500-
1900 (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 Rajus 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.), Indias
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, 131-
51 (Russian translation 2008)
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Crisis and Contradiction in Indias 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, 1-
10
Introduction: Tropical Medicine Before Manson, in David Arnold (ed.), Warm
Climates and Western Medicine: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 1500-
1900, 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
Indias Place in the Tropical World, 1770-1930, Journal of Imperial and
Commonwealth History, 26: 1, 1998, 1-21
Dfinition de lOriental: Corps indien, corps tortur, in Michel Porret (ed.), Le corps
violent: 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, 1700-
1960, London, Routledge, 1999, 123-43 (Bengali translation 2009)
A Time for Science: Past and Present in the Reconstruction of Hindu Science, 1860-
1920, 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 Indias 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 Nineteenth-
Century 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, Nineteenth-
Century 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, 265-
79).
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 20
th
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, 4
th
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 Indias 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
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