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Bombay Plague

  • How the British used the 1896 Bombay Plague as the excuse to advance their interests in Iran

    How the British used the 1896 Bombay Plague as the excuse to advance their interests in Iran

    John Hayhurst
    · Oct 16, 2022 · 01:30 pm
  • Tracing the overlapping lives of my great-grandfather and one of the heroes of the Bombay Plague

    Tracing the overlapping lives of my great-grandfather and one of the heroes of the Bombay Plague

    Luis Dias
    · Apr 28, 2021 · 11:30 am
  • How I wrote the pandemic. Not the current one, but the one in Bombay over 100 years ago

    How I wrote the pandemic. Not the current one, but the one in Bombay over 100 years ago

    Kalpish Ratna
    · Sep 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm
  • This memoir explores life under the mortal threat of a pandemic over 100 years ago

    This memoir explores life under the mortal threat of a pandemic over 100 years ago

    Gayathri Prabhu
    · Jun 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm
  • How WM Haffkine developed a vaccine for the  plague epidemic that hit Bombay in 1896

    How WM Haffkine developed a vaccine for the plague epidemic that hit Bombay in 1896

    Ambarish Satwik
    · May 11, 2020 · 05:30 pm
  • Ayurveda, yoga and western medicine: Understanding the human body depends on medical tradition

    Ayurveda, yoga and western medicine: Understanding the human body depends on medical tradition

    Suzanne Newcombe, The Conversation
    · Nov 21, 2017 · 01:30 pm