This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940. The story of these important Indian professionals presents a rare social history of an important political minority.

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Anna Greenwood is Assistant Professor in British Imperial History at University of Nottingham, UK. She has published widely on colonial medical history, and is particularly interested in the way racial ideologies have influenced medical practice. This is her second monograph, having previously published (as Crozier) Practising Colonial Medicine, The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa (2007). She is also Editor and Contributor to (ed.) Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in Africa (2015).

Harshad Topiwala is Honorary Research Fellow of History at the University of Kent, UK. He has held executive positions with Shell, and served as Director of NHS Boards in Kent and on the Kent Committee for Magistrates. He is currently a member of the University of Kent Council.

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Contents 1. 'The Empire is Not White': Indian Doctors in Kenya 2. Indians, Migration and Medicine 3. Indians, Western Medicine and the Establishment of the Protectorate 4. Race and Medicine 5. Indians in the Colonial Medical Service 6. Squeezing Indians Out of Government Medicine 7. Indian Private Doctors in Kenya 8. Private Doctors: Practising Medicine in a Segregated World