Salt, Protest and Public Health in India,
Past and Present
Seminar
Programme/Video
Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon)
From ‘saltless diet’ to Salt March:
The irony of Gandhi’s bodily politics
06 NOVEMBER, 2020
Salt routes in colonial India:
From trade to smuggling
The salt tax, starvation and disease in colonial India, c. 1860-1930
20 NOVEMBER, 2020
Scarcity amidst abundance:
The salt controversy in colonial Bengal
Salt, smuggling, and citizenship:
Redefining economic autonomy through salt in India’s princely states, 1870-1920
27 NOVEMBER, 2020
Salt and national imag(in)ing in Gandhi’s anti-colonial nationalist movement
04 DECEMBER, 2020
Regulation as performance:
Setting the salt march against the regulation of food in late nationalist India
The global impact of the Dandi Salt March
11 DECEMBER, 2020
British imperial goitre studies and the lack of public health interventions involving the mass distribution of iodized salt to Indians, 1906-1941
Amrit Kaur:
from Dandi Satyagraha to the Ministry of Health
18 DECEMBER, 2020
Kapil Yadav & Chandrakant Pandav
From iodine to iron:
Ramalingaswami and the importance of salt to public health since the 1950s
Afterword