Blood Testing and Fear of the False British in India

This talk focuses on bloodtesting in the first half of the 20th century. Sharafi examines precipitin testing, a form of serum analysis that identified the species of origin of a bloodstain. She suggests that precipitin testing took special hold in India because of the interaction between this forensic technique, punitive self-harm as a mode of private disputing, and fabricated evidence in murder cases in the form of planted animal blood at crime scenes.