Publisher's Synopsis
Focuses primarily on the political economy and health anthropology of a medium village near Lucknow, but the relative health of the poor, of the lower classes, of Muslims and of woman in this ?microcosm? is set within a much wider context of: the regional background and politics of Uttar Pradesh (India's most populous and, arguably, least healthy major state); Indian national politics, demographic history and inter-state inequalities; and the apparently mainly widening inequalities of income and health in the UK and even, for many indicators, internationally. -
