Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India: Collected Works of Florence NightingaleSocial Change in India shows the shift of focus that occurred during Florence Nightingale’s more than forty years of work on public health in India. While the focus in the preceding volume, Health in India, was top-down reform, notably in the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, this book documents concrete proposals for self-government, especially at the municipal level, and the encouragement of leading Indian nationals themselves. Famine and related epidemics continue to be issues, demonstrating the need for public works like irrigation and for greater self-help measures like “health missioners” and self-government. The book includes sections on village and town sanitation, the condition and status of women, land tenure, rent reform, and education and political evolution toward self-rule. Nightingale’s publications on these subjects appeared increasingly in Indian journals. Correspondence shows Nightingale continuing to work behind the scenes, pressing viceroys, governors, and Cabinet ministers to take up the cause of sanitary reform. Her collaboration with Lord Ripon, viceroy 1880-84, was crucial, for he was a great promoter of Indian self-government. Social Change in India features much new material, including a substantial number of long-missing letters to Lady Dufferin, wife of the viceroy 1884-88, on the provision of medical care for women in India, health education, and the promotion of women doctors. Biographical sketches of major collaborators, a glossary of Indian terms, and a list of Indian place names are also provided. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary. |
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Viceroyalty of Lord Northbrook 187276 | 121 |
The Zemindar the Sun and the Watering Pot 1874 | 401 |
The United Empire and the Indian Peasant 1878 | 487 |
Indian Letters 187882 | 500 |
The Dumb Shall Speak and the Deaf Shall Hear 1883 | 548 |
The Bengal Tenancy Bill 1883 | 598 |
Reform in Credit Cooperatives Education and Agriculture | 621 |
Letter on Cooperation in India 1879 | 627 |
Can We Educate Education 1879 | 633 |
Viceroyalty of Lord Lytton 187680 | 135 |
Gladstone Fawcett and Indian Finance | 151 |
The Native Army Hospital Corps | 173 |
Changes in and Later Work of the Sanitary Commissions | 182 |
Village and Town Sanitation | 231 |
Letter to the Bengal Social Science Association 1870 | 233 |
On Indian Sanitation 1870 | 235 |
Sanitary Progress in India 1870 | 244 |
Observations on Sanitary Progress 1872 | 258 |
A Missionary Health Officer for India 1879 | 261 |
The Bombay Village Sanitation Bill 1885 | 311 |
Village Sanitation 1887 | 321 |
Viceroyalty of Lord Dufferin 188588 | 326 |
Viceroyalty of Lord Lansdowne 188894 | 340 |
Village Sanitation in India 1889 | 353 |
Sanitation in India February 1891 | 357 |
Sanitation in India December 1891 | 362 |
Letter to Lord Cross 1892 | 366 |
Health Lectures for Indian Villages 1893 | 375 |
Village Sanitation in India 1894 | 380 |
Health Missioners for Rural India 1896 | 388 |
Land Tenure and Rent Reform | 393 |
Education Agriculture and Public Works | 676 |
The Condition of Women in India | 717 |
The Rukhmabai Case | 774 |
Introduction to Behramji H Malabari 1892 | 777 |
Later Efforts on Nursing in India | 779 |
Social and Political Evolution | 797 |
The Ilbert Bill | 799 |
Indian Society and Culture in Transition | 806 |
Our Indian Stewardship 1883 | 818 |
Towards SelfGovernment and Independence | 846 |
Nightingales Last Work on India and a Retrospective | 879 |
Nightingales Achievements on India | 890 |
Biographical Sketches | 903 |
Dame Mary Scharlieb 18451930 | 905 |
Dadabhai Naoroji 18251917 | 907 |
Sir William Wedderburn 18381918 | 908 |
British Officials in Nightingales Time | 910 |
Spelling of Indian Place Names | 919 |
Glossary | 921 |
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