Ayurveda Made Modern [electronic resource] : Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900-1955 /
Berger, R.author.
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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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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
History.
Asia—History.
Imperialism.
World politics.
Great Britain—History.
Civilization—History.
History of Science.
Asian History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Political History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Cultural History.