01398nas a2200265   4500000000100000008004100001260002300042653003600065653001200101653001600113653002100129653001300150653001000163653002800173653003000201653001100231653001200242653001400254653001300268100001300281245010600294300000900400520069800409022002501107       2024                            d  bInforma UK Limited10aSociology and Political Science10aHistory10aDevelopment10aCultural Studies10aArchives10aDelhi10aDelhi Improvement Trust10aDelhi Municipal Committee10aHealth10aleprosy10amigration10aplanning1 aRaturi M00aThe ‘Migrant-Leper’ as the Undeserving Outsider: Historicising Leprosy Policy in Delhi, 1920–60  a1-173 a<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>
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