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Ayurveda Made Modern : Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900-1955 / by R. Berger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, R., Author.
- Series:
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 2635-1641
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Asia--History.
- Asia.
- Imperialism.
- World politics.
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- History of Science.
- Asian History.
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- Political History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Cultural History.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Science.
- Asian History.
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- Political History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Cultural History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ayurveda in Motion; 1 Historicizing 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349329687
- 1349329681
- 9781137315908
- 1137315903
- OCLC:
- 870892089
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