Ayurveda made modern : political histories of indigenous medicine in North India, 1900-1955
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Ayurveda made modern : political histories of indigenous medicine in North India, 1900-1955
（Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series / general editor, A.G. Hopkins）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a 'modern' medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in late colonial India.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Ayurveda in Motion 1. Historicising Ayurveda: Genealogies of the Biomoral 2. Situating Ayurveda in Modernity, 1900-1919 3. Embodying Consumption: Representing Indigeneity in Popular Culture, 1910-1940 4. Ayurveda's Dyarchic Moment, 1920-1935 5. Planning through Development: Institutions, Population, and the Limits of Belonging 6. Reframing Indigeneity: Ayurveda, Independence and the Health of the Future Conclusion: Ayurveda's Indian Modernities Bibliography
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