Screen LibraryAyurveda made modern political histories of indigenous medicine in North India, 1900-1955 /
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...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies Series
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137315908 |
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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. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230284555, 2013. |
| Carrier Form: | 248 p. |
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9781137315908 : 1137315903 : |
| CLC: | R45 |
| 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. |