Janus: Drop the demon dai

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Drop the demon dai

Title	Drop the demon dai
Reference	GBR/0115/RCMS 88 (former reference: MSS 23)
Creator	Lang, Sean, b 1960
Covering Dates	2002
Extent and Medium	1 envelope; paper; Typewritten
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

This paper was written by Sean Lang while he was studying for a Ph.D. in 'The welfare and mortality of colonial India' at Anglia Polytechnic University.

An unbound research paper on maternal mortality and the state in the Madras Presidency, 1840-1875, 68 pages. The paper discusses lying-in hospitals, midwifery training, dai (a traditional birth assistant), child-birth in India, the health and medical welfare of Indian women and female mortality.

Presented by Sean Lang, 2002.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Drop the demon dai, RCMS 88

Further information

MSS Addenda, vol. I. A description is with the collection. Indexed

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