Title Ayurveda made modern : political histories of Indigenous medicine in North India, 1900-1955 / Rachel Berger, associate professor, Department of History, Concordia University, Canada

Published Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Medicine, Ayurvedic -- India, North -- History -- 20th century Medicine, Ayurvedic -- Political aspects -- India, North Traditional medicine -- India, North -- History -- 20th century Traditional medicine -- Political aspects -- India, North Politics, Practical. Medicine, Ayurvedic -- history Colonialism -- history History, 20th Century Politics politics. Complementary medicine -- India. -- 20th century. Health systems & services -- India. -- 20th century. Colonialism & imperialism -- India. -- 20th century. Social & cultural history -- India. -- 20th century. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference. MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine. MEDICAL -- Atlases. MEDICAL -- Essays. MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice. MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine. MEDICAL -- Osteopathy. History. Politics, Practical Medicine, Ayurvedic Traditional medicine Ayurveda Complementary medicine -- India -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. Health systems & services -- India -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. Colonialism & imperialism -- India -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. Social & cultural history -- India -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. History. SUBJECT India https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007194 Subject North India Indien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137315908 1137315903 9781306284998 1306284996

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