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Ayurveda made modern : political histories of indigenous medicine in North India, 1900-1955

Title
Ayurveda made modern : political histories of indigenous medicine in North India, 1900-1955 / Rachel Berger, assistant professor, Department of History, Concordia University, Canada.
Author
Berger, Rachel, 1979-
Publication
Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Description
xiv, 232 pages; 23 cm.
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 colonial India. It examines the shift between an entrenched colonial reticence to consider the Indigenous Medical Systems as legitimate scientific medicine, to a growing acceptance of Ayurvedic medicine following the First World War. Locating the moment of transition within the implementation of a dyarchic system of governance in 1919, the book argues that the revamping of the 'Medical Services' into an important new category of regional governance ushered in an era of health planning that considered curative and preventative medicine as key components of the 'health' of the population. As such, it illuminates the way in which conceptions of power, authority and agency were newly configured and consolidated as politics were revamped in the late colonial India.
Series Statement
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Uniform Title
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFD 14-5397
ISBN
  • 9780230284555
  • 0230284558
LCCN
2013028832
OCLC
834978356
Author
Berger, Rachel, 1979- author.
Title
Ayurveda made modern : political histories of indigenous medicine in North India, 1900-1955 / Rachel Berger, assistant professor, Department of History, Concordia University, Canada.
Publisher
Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 14-5397
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