@article{99623,
  keywords = {Sociology and Political Science, History, Development, Cultural Studies, Archives, Delhi, Delhi Improvement Trust, Delhi Municipal Committee, Health, leprosy, migration, planning},
  author = {Raturi M},
  title = {The ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–60},
  abstract = {<p>Discussions on migration and leprosy in India, largely absent from historical enquiries, feature dominantly in epidemiological studies that frame the migrant with leprosy as a bacterium-carrying outsider, crossing interstate boundaries to spread infection and increase prevalence rates in urban spaces. The paper seeks to reframe the debate by analysing the migrant with leprosy not as a risk factor, but as a social identity that has historically animated public policy. By analysing leprosy policy in Delhi from 1920 to 1960, the paper explores how leprosy-affected beggars in Delhi were seen as an indolent class of outsiders burdening state finances, unworthy of adequate support.</p>
},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies},
  pages = {1-17},
  publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
  issn = {0085-6401, 1479-0270},
  doi = {10.1080/00856401.2024.2281082},
  language = {Eng},
}