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Body as a site of fight: Women and smallpox vaccination in Travancore
By: AGNEY G.K., PRATHEEP P.S. – Due to the heavy death toll inflicted, smallpox was an abhorred visitor in Travancore (the southernmost princely state in pre-independent India). Ayurvedic medicines and prayers to epidemic deities were the only curative techniques practised by the populace before the introduction of vaccination to the princely state in the early…