In view of the topicality of pandemics, this brief article discusses the responses of the vernacular press in Bombay during 1918 following the influenza pandemic of that year. With occasional inputs from English language dailies, such as The Times of India and The Hindu of the period, the aim is to understand how, as the epidemic receded, the government’s response to the epidemic was questioned and the influenza epidemic was constructed as a part of anticolonial rhetoric by the ‘native press’, closely monitored by the British.

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孟买热/西班牙流感：1918-19 年孟买殖民地的公共卫生和本土媒体

鉴于大流行的时事性，这篇简短的文章讨论了 1918 年孟买流感大流行后当地媒体的反应。偶尔会有来自当时的《印度时报》和《印度教徒报》等英文日报的输入，目的是了解随着流行病的消退，政府对流行病的反应如何受到质疑，以及如何将流感流行作为构建的一部分受到英国密切监视的“本土媒体”的反殖民言论。