Ayurveda Made Modern

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

AvR. Berger

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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.