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Ayurveda Made Modern - Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900-1955 (Hardcover)
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Ayurveda Made Modern - Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900-1955 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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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 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.
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