Civil Veterinary Material in the NLS India Papers Collection
A previously neglected resource for historical research
Overview of the paper
The wider significance of the veterinary material
It's specific significance to my research project
Outcomes of the Collaboration
My PhD thesis: 'The Civil Veterinary Departments of British India 1876-1947: Science, medicine, power and nature in a colonial context'.
'Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health in British India' phase of 'The Medical History of British India' online resource.
www.nls.uk/indiapapers/index.html
Overview of the Material
1.) Veterinary Diseases Collection
2.) Civil Veterinary Department (Central)
3.) Civil Veterinary Departments (Provincial)
4.) Veterinary Colleges and Laboratories
Indian Eco-Regions
Historical Debates
1. Questioning the 'Civil' in the Civil Veterinary Service
2. Veterinary medicine & metropolitan profit
3. Indigenous mediation of veterinary policy
Elephants transporting heavy artillery to a hill station, c. 1935
1.) Military work, civil cost
'[This is] another sign of the rampant militarism under which India groans, while the soil cries out for improvement'
- Indian Agriculturalist (1886)
The CVDs were not intended to 'help veterinary investigation, much less serve the cause of Indian agriculture'
-Deepak Kumar (2006)
'Colonial veterinary activities… began, and continued for much of the colonial period, in a military context'
-Diana Davis (2005)
Reports on animal disease
'A note on surra [trypanosomiasis] in camels for commandants of camel corps'- HE Cross, Lahore, 1914
'Report on his [Steel's] investigation into…fatal disease among transport mules in British Burma'- JH Steel, 1885
'Elephants and their diseases'- GH Evans, 1910
'Report on horse surra'- Alfred Lingard, 1893
Animal Draught Power- Figures from 1938

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