Mahmuda Akter Poly
Thesis
Thesis
Hygienic Prisons: Sanitation, Healthcare and Rehabilitation, Eastern Bengal (c. 1890-1970)
Supervisor: Sabine Clarke
Research
Research
Funded by the prestigious Bangabandhu Overseas Scholarship 2021-22, Bangladesh, my project focuses on sanitation and healthcare policy in the prison administrations of Eastern Bengal during colonial time. As a colonial ‘enclave’ prison offers some striking features which are connected to the prisoner’s health for example, imposing strict discipline and hard labour, overcrowding and spreading contagious diseases, issues associated with religion and gender and diet etc. Most historical study sheds light on the structural and functional arrangements of the prison, while the health of prisoner has always been an overlooked area.
This study is aimed to investigate the determinants of prisoner’s health and measurements taken by colonial authority to protect the sanitation and healthcare policy in jail.
