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Contesting Colonial Authority : Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
Overview
Poonam Bala's Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian Medicine. Viewed in the light of the cultural, nationalistic, social, literary and scientific essentials, Contesting Colonial Authority highlights various indigenous interpretations and mechanisms through which Indian sciences and medicine were projected against the cultural background of a rich medical tradition.
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- ISBN-13: 9780739170236
- ISBN-10: 0739170236
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Publish Date: April 2012
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.95 pounds
- Page Count: 186
- Reading Level: Ages 22-UP
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