Download or read book Leprosy in Colonial South India written by Jane Buckingham and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2002-03-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British medical treatment similarly was contingent on the leprosy sufferer's co-operation. Confronted with leprosy, law was as weak a 'tool of empire' as medicine. Even the poorest and weakest of the empire had the power to resist."--BOOK JACKET.