Dinesh's photos with the keyword: William Mcneill

. . .As for India, the existence of temples for worship of a deity of smallpox shows that the disease (or something closely akin thereto) was of considerable significance in Hindu India from time immemorial -- however long that may be historically. Unfortunately, absence of records permits no account whatever of Indian encounters with infectious disease before 1200 ~ Page 144 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariamman