Rockefeller Archive Center

Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.
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Help Fight Malaria in Bengal: A Study in the Intervention of Rockefeller Foundation

January 1, 2011

While working on my doctoral dissertation, Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal: Social History of an Epidemic, I inadvertently located some archival materials at West Bengal State Archives, India, that indicated the Rockefeller Foundation's (RF) intervention in the eradication of malaria in India. However, the information was incomplete, piecemeal and fragmented, and therefore it could not produce any meaningful narrative, far less warrant any sensible conclusion. Therefore, I could not make use of that ad hoc information in my story of government and nongovernment intervention in mitigating the scourge of malaria in colonial Bengal.

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