Kelsey Lessard
- BA (University of Ottawa, 2018)
Notice of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Master of Arts
Topic
Malaria and Colonial Development Projects in India, 1927–1935
Department of History
Date & location
- Tuesday, August 16, 2022
- 9:00 A.M.
- Clearihue Building, Room B019
Reviewers
Supervisory Committee
- Dr. Elizabeth Vibert, Department of History, University of Victoria (Supervisor)
- Dr. Mitch Hammond, Department of History, UVic (Member)
External Examiner
- Dr. Sujin Lee, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, UVic
Chair of Oral Examination
- Prof. Robert Lapper, Faculty of Law, UVic
Abstract
The 1920s and 1930s were a period of rapid urban growth and intensive changes to rural Indian geography through the construction of irrigation project to increase agricultural output. The work of several key researchers at this time demonstrated that these projects could lead to an increase in malaria prevalence. However, this period was also the site of a complicated entanglement of environmentalist and bacteriological thinking which sometimes resulted in a disconnect between the research and the fieldwork that impacted the quality of research and the message malaria researchers were trying to send to the British administration in India.