India, Aug. 29 -- When the British first arrived in India in 1608, they did not foresee how swiftly deadly tropical diseases would puncture European medical hubris. Ipshita Nath's In Sickness and in Death draws on a vast body of research to examine how disease reshaped colonial policy and altered everyday life across the subcontinent. She also shows how the politics of disease, determined by fear and force. are glaringly present even today, in the post-pandemic era....