Hygiea Internationalis 2009 8(1): 7–29

‘An Egyptian Infection’
War, Plague and the Quarantines of the English East India Company at Madras and Bombay, 1802
By Aparna Nair

DOI: 10.3384/hygiea.1403-8668.09817

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