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As a crucial component of the global smallpox eradication programme, which has been widely hailed as one of the greatest public health successes in the 20th century, the Indian experience has some important stories to tell. Expunging Variola reveals these as it chronicles the last three decades of the anti-smallpox campaigns in India. About Author : Sanjoy Bhattacharya is Lecturer at the Willcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. He is the author of Propaganda and Information in Eastern India,1939-45: A Necessary Weapon of War (2001). Contents : List of Tables List of Maps, Charts and Graphs Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Universalist Claims, Selective Upgrades: The Complexities of Health Policy Reformulations in India Asymmetrical Designs A Troubled and Uneven Expansion A Torturous Advance An Integral Component of the Smallpox Eradication Programme Epilogue Glossary Bibliography Index