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Review of Bhattacharya’s, Disparate Remedies | Asmita Sarkar

Sunday 12 January 2025

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]

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Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India
by Nandini Bhattacharya

McGill-Queen’s University Press
Intoxicating Histories Series
2023. xii + 257 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-0-228-01753-0

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Reviewed by Asmita Sarkar (University of Oxford)

In Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India, Nandini Bhattacharya investigates the historical roots of the contemporary pharmaceutical industry in India. Bhattacharya