The Eastern and North Eastern region of India with the exception of Bengal has received little attention from the Medical historians as a prospective area of research. It is important that the development of the region is studied in relation to epidemiology of diseases epidemic, infectious and also chronic, development of public health in urban and rural sectors with special emphasis on women and children, development of institutions of medical and psychiatric care Hospitals and dispensaries and asylums. British penetration into this region from the middle of the eighteenth century saw the development of a new system of health policy and health care which redefined the existing relationship between medical knowledge and colonial power. The Key goal will be to understand the pattern of colonial medical intervention into the region and the response of the indigenous society to medical policies of British as Western medicine and institutional health care slowly created its own space within indigenous society. The result will hopefully be a better understanding of the historical legacy of Western Medicine and Public Health Policy in the development to a total health care system in this region. The project addresses in a historical context the evolution of an institutional public healthcare system in colonial eastern India.