Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of

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 medici

Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of