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. 2007 Nov 1;25(3):263-289.
doi: 10.1080/02619280802407376.

"The people have no more love left for the Commonwealth": Media, migration and identity in the 1961-2 British smallpox outbreak

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"The people have no more love left for the Commonwealth": Media, migration and identity in the 1961-2 British smallpox outbreak

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References

    1. The National Archives-Public Record Office [TNA:PRO], MH55/2520 ‘Inward Telegram to Commonwealth Relations Office No. 251’, 23 February 1962. The quotation is an extract from Pakistan's main English language newspaper.

    1. For a sympathetic contemporary discussion of Ayub Khan’s policies and governance in this period, see

    2. Sayeed Khalid. ‘Pakistan’s Constitutional Autocracy’. Pacific Affairs. 1963;36(4):365–77.

    3. For a longer view, see:

    4. Talbot Ian. Pakistan: A Modern History. Hurst & Co.; London: 2005. expanded and updated edition.

    5. , and for a summary discussion of living conditions, mortality and morbidity rates, and other matters underpinning population shifts in Pakistan, see Rogers Tom. ‘Population Growth and Movement in Pakistan: A Case Study’. Asian Survey. 1990;30:446–460.

    1. The details of this story are drawn from documents in the following TNA: PRO files: MH55/2520, MH96/1226, MH96/1227.

    1. See TNA-PRO MH96/1226 ‘Smallpox Imported Cases January 1962 (Wales 1962-3)’.

    1. By ‘subcontinental immigrants’ I mean, of course, migrants originating in the nations of the Indian subcontinent.

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