Ayurveda Made Modern: Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900-1955

by R. Berger

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137315908
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/16/2013
Series:	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	469 KB

About the Author

Rachel Berger is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian History at Concordia University, Canada.

Table of 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

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