Poonam Bala taught history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a reader (associate professor) in sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She is the author of Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective (Sage Publications: New Delhi, Newbury Park, 1991).

This succint volume is nonetheless an ambitious attempt to trace the historical trajectory of Indian medicine. Coverage of this impressively broad sweep of history from the Vedic period onward allows Bala to provide an overview of trends and continuities in the social and institutional position of medicine as knowledge tradition and therapeutic practice.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Studying Medical Trajectories and PoliciesChapter 2 Birth of Indian Medicine: State Support and Assault in Ancient Times?Chapter 3 Expanding Medical Practice: Patronage Systems under Muslim RuleChapter 4 Colonial Imperatives, Medicine and Indian ResponseChapter 5 Conclusions: State, Ideology and Medical Traditions in India

Poonam Bala taught history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a reader (associate professor) in sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She is the author of Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective (Sage Publications: New Delhi, Newbury Park, 1991).

This succint volume is nonetheless an ambitious attempt to trace the historical trajectory of Indian medicine. Coverage of this impressively broad sweep of history from the Vedic period onward allows Bala to provide an overview of trends and continuities in the social and institutional position of medicine as knowledge tradition and therapeutic practice.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Studying Medical Trajectories and PoliciesChapter 2 Birth of Indian Medicine: State Support and Assault in Ancient Times?Chapter 3 Expanding Medical Practice: Patronage Systems under Muslim RuleChapter 4 Colonial Imperatives, Medicine and Indian ResponseChapter 5 Conclusions: State, Ideology and Medical Traditions in India

Poonam Bala taught history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a reader (associate professor) in sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She is the author of Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective (Sage Publications: New Delhi, Newbury Park, 1991).

This succint volume is nonetheless an ambitious attempt to trace the historical trajectory of Indian medicine. Coverage of this impressively broad sweep of history from the Vedic period onward allows Bala to provide an overview of trends and continuities in the social and institutional position of medicine as knowledge tradition and therapeutic practice.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Studying Medical Trajectories and PoliciesChapter 2 Birth of Indian Medicine: State Support and Assault in Ancient Times?Chapter 3 Expanding Medical Practice: Patronage Systems under Muslim RuleChapter 4 Colonial Imperatives, Medicine and Indian ResponseChapter 5 Conclusions: State, Ideology and Medical Traditions in India