BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251017T005209EDT-7161OVmcUG@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251017T045209Z DESCRIPTION:Inoculation in Early Modern India: Evidence from the East India Company Archive\n \n Dr. Anna Winterbottom\n ºÚÁÏÉç\n \n While the origins of vaccination have been widely studied\, inoculation\, on which vaccination is based\, is less well known. Inoculation involved deliberately infecting a patient with a mild version of smallpox\, conferring future protection against the disease. Inoculation was described in Chinese texts from the s ixteenth century onwards. By the eighteenth century\, it was practiced els ewhere in East Asia\, and in parts of South Asia\, and the Ottoman Empire\ , from where it was introduced to Europe. Inoculation was also known in so me areas of West Africa\, from where enslaved people introduced it to part s of the Americas. In this paper\, I examine how the technique of inoculat ion was transmitted across different medical cultures and between differen t religious and linguistic communities. I use a case study of a letter wri tten in 1801 and preserved in the East India Company archive. This letter\ , which is translated from Telugu into English\, describes how inoculation was transmitted southwards from Bengal to Andhra Pradesh. The movement of the practice involved several forms of translation: linguistic\, religiou s\, and bodily. The East India Company archive also reveals that both the Company and Indian rulers provided patronage for inoculation in the late e ighteenth and early nineteenth centuries\, using the technique as a public demonstration of power and benevolence.\n DTSTART:20250219T200000Z DTEND:20250219T220000Z LOCATION:Room 116\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue McTavish SUMMARY:IOWC Winter Speaker Series - Dr. Anna Winterbottom URL:/history/channels/event/iowc-winter-speaker-series -dr-anna-winterbottom-362843 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR