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What is commendable about Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India: 1820–1909 is the arc of history (both temporally and spatially) that Rohan Deb Roy has so skilfully mapped. This monograph is an admirable example of transnational histories of medicine, which provide a finely crafted narrative of medical knowledge, practices and other objects as they developed in and through movements across several national boundaries. Deb Roy tracks the coconstituted histories of malaria, quinine, cinchona and mosquitoes in British India by drawing on a treasure trove of archival material. While it is common for historians to study timelines of historical events or processes, what is striking about Malarial Subjects is the wide geographical expanse, which the author scans in order to tell a nuanced history of malaria, quinine, cinchona and mosquitoes.