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By the 1840S the Landscape of North India was Dotted with dispensaries that came up with contributions from the government and village society. They employed both doctors and hakims. And they exemplified yet another facet of the collaborative yet contested space of public welfare.
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© 2008 Seema Alavi
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Alavi, S. (2008). Dispensaries and Shifakhaanas in Early-Nineteenth-Century India. In: Islam and Healing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583771_5
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