CHAPTER 18
Science, Institution, Colonialism: Tibbiya College of Delhi, 1889–1947
Neshat Quaiser*
Tibbiya College is not merely a teaching place and an institution to produce tabibs with effectual knowledge of modern surgery.1
The formation of Tibbiya College—a continuity of the Madrasa-e Tibbiya (a school for unani medicine) established in 18892—was a moment, both in the history of the institution and of ideas in colonial India, which contained within itself the seeds of immense possibilities. The moment was arrived at through a process that was both rather long (in the context of Muslims in India) and not so long (in terms of the colonial encounter and new ideas). The moment was characterized by many things. The college signified a reorganization ...
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