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Ayurveda Made Modern

Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900-1955

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Authors:
  1. Rachel Berger

    1. Department of History, Concordia University, Canada

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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Ayurveda in Motion

    • Rachel Berger
    Pages 1-22

  3. Historicizing Ayurveda: Genealogies of the Biomoral

    • Rachel Berger
    Pages 23-49

  4. Situating Ayurveda in Modernity, 1900–1919

    • Rachel Berger
    Pages 50-74

  5. Embodying Consumption: Representing Indigeneity in Popular Culture, 1910–1940

    • Rachel Berger
    Pages 75-105

  6. Ayurveda’s Dyarchic Moment, 1920–1935

    • Rachel Berger
    Pages 106-127

  7. Planning Through Development: Institutions, Population and the Limits of Belonging

    • Rachel Berger
    Pages 128-154

  8. Reframing Indigeneity: Ayurveda, Independence and the Health of the Future

    • Rachel Berger
    Pages 155-185

  9. Conclusion: Ayurveda’s Indian Modernities

    • Rachel Berger
    Pages 186-189

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 190-232
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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 late colonial India.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Concordia University, Canada

    Rachel Berger

About the author

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

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