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Media Technology and Cultures of Memory Mapping Indian Narratives

Media Technology and Cultures of Memory Mapping Indian Narratives

Media Technology and Cultures of Memory studies narrative memories in India through oral chirographic and digital cultures. It examines oral cultures of memory culled from diverse geographical and cultural landscapes of India and throws light on multiple aspects of remembering and registering the varied cultural tapestry of the country. The book also explores themes such as oral culture and memory markers; memory and its paratextual services; embodied memory practices in the cultural traditions; between myths and monuments; literary and lived experiences; print culture and memory markers; marginalized memories in hagiographies; displaying memories online; childhood trauma memory and flashbacks; and the politics of remembering and forgetting. Rich in case studies from across India this interdisciplinary book is a must-read for scholars and researchers of cultural studies sociology political science English literature South Asian studies social anthropology social history and post-colonial studies. | Media Technology and Cultures of Memory Mapping Indian Narratives

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The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions. It traces the various medial responses (memoirs fiction poetry film art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth commissions. The 1990s and the 2000s saw a spate of so-called truth commissions across the Global South. From the inaugural truth commissions in post-juntas 1980s Latin America to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up by the incoming post-apartheid government in South Africa and the twinned gacaca courts and National Unity and Reconciliation Commission in Rwanda and that in indigenous Australia various truth commissions have sought to lay bare human rights abuses. The chapters in this volume explore how truth commissions crystallized a long tradition of dissenting and resisting cultures of memorialization in the public sphere across the Global South and provided a significant template for contemporary attempts to work through episodes of violence and oppression across the region. Drawing on studies from Latin America Africa Asia and Australia this book illuminates the modes in which societies remember and negotiate with traumatic pasts. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of human rights popular culture and art literature media politics and history. | The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

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Kings Spirits and Memory in Central India Enchanting the State

Kings Spirits and Memory in Central India Enchanting the State

Part anthropological history and part memoir this book is a unique study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. The author a scion of the erstwhile ruling family of Kanker delves into the oral accounts given in the ancestral deity practices of the mixed tribe-caste communities of the region to highlight popular narratives of its historical polity. As he struggles with his own dilemmas as ethnographer-king what comes into view is a polity where the princely state is drawn out amidst a terrain of gods and spirits as much as that of law courts and magistrates and political power is divided contested and shared between the raja/state and the people. This study constitutes not only an intervention in the larger debate on the relationship between state formations and tribal peoples but also on the very nature of history as a knowledge practice especially the understandings of power authority and sovereignty in it. Combining intensive ethnography complementary archival work and crucial theoretical questions engaging social scientists worldwide the author charts an unusual explanatory path that can allow us to obtain a meaningful understanding of societies/peoples that have historically been marginalized and seen as different. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of history anthropology politics religion tribal society and Modern South Asia. | Kings Spirits and Memory in Central India Enchanting the State

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The Languages of Religion Exploring the Politics of the Sacred

The Languages of Religion Exploring the Politics of the Sacred

This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available — oral traditions sacred texts evangelical prose and national rhetoric used by ‘faith-insiders’ such as missionaries priests or religious leaders who play the communicator’s role between the sacred and the secular — the chapters in the volume reveal the dependence of religion upon language demonstrating how religion draws strength from a past that is embedded in narratives infusing the ‘sacred’ language with political power. The book combines broad theoretical and normative reflections in contexts of original detailed and closely examined empirical case studies. Drawing upon resources across disciplines the book will be of interest to scholars of religion and religious studies linguistics politics cultural studies history sociology and social anthropology. | The Languages of Religion Exploring the Politics of the Sacred

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The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

The book presents a new interpretation of the Santal Rebellion the Hul 1855–1856 drawing on the colonial sources as well as Santal memories. It offers a critique of postcolonial approaches that overlook specifically tribal perspectives and see the Hul as a class-based peasant rebellion. The author analyses the Hul and its participants—the Santals and their opponents both the colonial administration and the Bengalis. He also looks at the attempts of the Hul’s leaders Sido and Kạnhu to reform the Santal religion. Offering a new respectful reading of the Hul’s religious legitimation the book argues that changes in Santal religion and ethics were responses to the colonial regime’s new and aggressive economic order. The Hul’s leaders Sido and Kạnhu demanded the introduction of just laws based on the universal principle of equality. This historical approach leads to a call for the inclusion of the voice of tribal and Adivasi minorities when formulating politics for their development in the 21st century. The book is relevant for researchers and students of social history social reform tribal and indigenous studies postcolonial studies and South Asian studies. | The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

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English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

This book looks at the figure of the English teacher in Indian classrooms and examines the practice and relevance of English and India’s colonial legacy many decades after independence. The book is an account of the varied experiences of teaching English in universities in different parts of the country. It highlights the changes in curriculum and teaching practices and how the discipline lent itself to a study of culture historical contexts the fashioning of identities or reform over the years. The volume presents the dramatic changes in the composition of the English classroom in terms of gender class caste and indigenous communities in recent decades as well as the shifts in teaching strategies and curriculum which the new diversity necessitated. The essays in the collection also examine the distinctiveness of English practice in India through classroom accounts which explore themes like post-coloniality feminism and human rights through the study of texts by Shakespeare Beckett Doris Lessing and poetry from the Northeast. This book will be of interest to academics researchers students and practitioners of English Studies education colonial studies cultural studies and South Asian studies as well as those concerned with the history of higher education and the establishment of disciplines and institutions. | English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

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Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills Empire and Resistance

Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills Empire and Resistance

This book examines the British colonial expansion in the so-called unadministered hill tracts of the Indo-Burma frontier and the change of colonial policy from non-intervention to intervention. The book begins with the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–26) which resulted in the British annexation of the North-Eastern Frontier of Bengal and the extension of its sway over the Arakan and Manipur frontiers and closes with the separation of Burma from India in 1937. The volume documents the resistance of the indigenous hill peoples to colonial penetration; administrative policies such as disarmament; subjugation of the local chiefs under a colonial legal framework and its impact; standardisation of ‘Chin’ as an ethnic category for the fragmented tribes and sub-tribes; and the creation and consolidation of the Chin Hills District as a political entity to provide an extensive account of British relations with the indigenous Chin/Zo community from 1824 to 1935. By situating these within the larger context of British imperial policy the book makes a critical analysis of the British approach towards the Indo-Burma frontier. With its coverage of key archival sources and literature this book will interest scholars and researchers in modern Indian history military history colonial history British history South Asian history and Southeast Asian history. | Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills Empire and Resistance

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Gender Citizenship and Identity in the Indian Blogosphere Writing the Everyday

Gender Citizenship and Identity in the Indian Blogosphere Writing the Everyday

This book examines the role of women bloggers in the Indian Blogosphere. It explores how women use new media technologies to create online spaces that share knowledge raise awareness and build communities. A unique work at the intersection of digital culture feminist theory and diaspora/transnationalism studies this book brings to light layered and complex issues such as identity gender performativity presentation of self migration and citizenship. This volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of cultural studies political studies gender studies women’s studies sociology diaspora studies feminist theory media and communication studies. | Gender Citizenship and Identity in the Indian Blogosphere Writing the Everyday

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Tracing the Undersea Dragon Chinese SSBN Programme and the Indo-Pacific

Tracing the Undersea Dragon Chinese SSBN Programme and the Indo-Pacific

This book is a comprehensive study of the development of China’s nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). It offers insights into the secretive world of nuclear submarines and ballistic missiles of the Chinese (PLA) Navy and studies how these are likely to grow in the next two decades. The volume examines the technological origins of the design and development of Chinese nuclear submarines ballistic missiles and their naval construction capabilities. It provides an analysis of the underlying Chinese nuclear doctrine China’s maritime geographical constraints for submarine operations and the credibility of its sea-based deterrence. It draws upon strategy nuclear policy technology geography and operational considerations to holistically predict the likely SSBN force levels of the PLA Navy for various scenarios. The book also assesses the spectrum of threats likely from the undersea domain for India and other nations in the Indo-Pacific region. A key text on an obscure but vital facet of Chinese defence studies this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of strategic affairs international relations and disarmament studies peace and conflict studies geopolitics foreign policy Indo-Pacific studies and diplomacy. | Tracing the Undersea Dragon Chinese SSBN Programme and the Indo-Pacific

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Tribe-Class Linkages The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura

Tribe-Class Linkages The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura

This book is a historical study of the development of agrarian class relations among the tribal population in Tripura. Tracing the evolution of Tripura and its agrarian relations from monarchy in the nineteenth century to democracy in the twentieth century the book discusses the nature of the erstwhile princely state of Tripura analyses the emergence of differentiation within tribes and documents the emergence of the tribal movement in the state. It specifically focuses on the tribal movement led by the Ganamukti Parishad beginning with the historic revolt of 1948-51 against state repression on the tribal people followed by the mass movements in the 1950s and 1960s which were founded on a recognition of class relations and the slogan of unity across the tribal and non-tribal (Bengali) peasantry. The first of its kind the book will be indispensable for students and researchers of tribal studies agrarian studies exclusion studies tribe-class relationships minority studies sociology development studies history political science north-east India studies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for activists and policymakers working in the area. | Tribe-Class Linkages The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura

GBP 130.00
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Pamuk's Istanbul The Self and the City

Pamuk's Istanbul The Self and the City

This book reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk’s fiction. It navigates the multiple selves and layers of Istanbul to present how the city has shaped the writings of Pamuk and has in turn been shaped by it. Through everyday objects and architecture it shows how Pamuk transforms the city into a living museum where different objects converse along with characters to present a rich tapestry across space and time. Further the monograph explores the formation of communal and literary identity within and around nation-building narratives informed by capitalism and modernization. The book also examines how Pamuk uses the postmodern city to move beyond its postmodern confines and utilizes the theories and universes of Bakhtin Benjamin and Foucault to open up his fiction and radically challenge the idea of the novel. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature literary theory museum studies architecture and cultural studies and especially appeal to readers of Orhan Pamuk. | Pamuk's Istanbul The Self and the City

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The Making of Modern Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah and the Politics of the State

The Making of Modern Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah and the Politics of the State

This book traces the roots of modern-day Kashmir and the role of Sheikh Abdullah in its making. As the most influential political figurehead in twentieth-century Kashmir he played a crucial role in its transformation from a kingdom to a state in independent India. He was enigmatic and complex to say the least. Following his meteoric rise he dominated the political scene for more than 50 years with enduring impact. The volume presents a keen analysis of pre-Independence events which led to the emergence of a controversial and confused identity of the region. It also looks at other major themes in the political life of Kashmir including the formation of the Muslim Conference the plebiscite movement and the Kashmir Accord. A major intervention in the political life of South Asia this book presents an inside-view of the history of modern Kashmir through the life and times of Sheikh Abdullah. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics history and modern South Asia. | The Making of Modern Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah and the Politics of the State

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Gandhi and Liberalism Satyagraha and the Conquest of Evil

Gandhi and Liberalism Satyagraha and the Conquest of Evil

One of the main themes running through Gandhi’s life and work was the battle against evil. This book offers a fascinating reconstruction of Gandhi and the doctrine of Ahimsa or non-violence. Gandhi’s moral perfectionism is contrasted with other forms of perfectionism but the book stresses that Gandhi also offered a doctrine of the second best. Following Gandhi the author argues that outward violence with compassion is intrinsically not as good as non-violence with compassion but it is a second best that is sometimes a necessary evil in an imperfect world. The book provides an illuminating analysis of coercion non-co-operation civil disobedience and necessary evil comparing Gandhi’s ideas with that of some of the leading western moral legal and political philosophers. Further some of his important ideas are shown to have relevance for the working of the Indian Constitution. This book will be essential for scholars and researchers in moral legal and political philosophy Gandhi studies political science and South Asian studies. | Gandhi and Liberalism Satyagraha and the Conquest of Evil

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The Virtual Couch COVID-19 through a Psychoanalytic Lens

The Virtual Couch COVID-19 through a Psychoanalytic Lens

This book is one of the first systematic examinations on the looming mental health crisis emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic from a psychoanalytic perspective. Bringing together practising therapists from Asia and Europe this book: analyses themes like anxiety depression sexuality loss and death through clinical vignettes highlights how children adolescents and adults have been responding to the pandemic explores how personal and collective trauma are mourned remembered repeated and worked through studies deep-seated prejudices and fears focuses on how the pandemic has stimulated exceptional manifestations of human solidarity and creativity Comprehensive and practical this book will be an essential guide for mental health professionals counsellors therapists and medical doctors treating psychological trauma. | The Virtual Couch COVID-19 through a Psychoanalytic Lens

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Tagore and the Margins of the Nation under Colonialism

Tagore and the Margins of the Nation under Colonialism

This book focuses on India’s anti-colonial politics which Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) brought into the mainstream of nationalist thinking. It browses through the entire corpus of Tagore’s writings in the genres of poetry fiction and essays to glean both used and hitherto unused/un-translated writings that illumine Tagore’s gender consciousness and (proto)feminist thought and empathy presenting it in a wholly new light. It teases out Tagore’s original views on India’s industrial-capitalist development and his views on the roles of applied scientists and engineers in it to highlight his critique of the nature of science teaching in colonial India. The volume also delineates Tagore’s Upanişadic ecologism that creatively evoked anticolonialism and patriotism. Lucid and topical the book will be indispensable for students and researchers in the fields of comparative literature history political science international relations and sociology at all levels and anybody interested in literary criticism and cultural studies. | Tagore and the Margins of the Nation under Colonialism

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The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary to sandstone Buddhas and metal figurines of Hindu deities. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects are valuable primary resources for understanding the East India Company’s history. The artworks illustrate how one of the longest-surviving multinational corporations in the Western world changed over its three-century history and provide a powerful visual account of its perpetually reinvented image. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of art history colonial art colonial studies British history economic history business history South Asian history post-colonial studies and cultural studies. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4. 0 International license. | The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

GBP 120.00
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Literatures from Northeast India Beyond the Centre–Periphery Debate

Literatures from Northeast India Beyond the Centre–Periphery Debate

This book showcases the diverse literary traditions from India’s Northeast and their shared connections and lineages. It critically analyses a selection of literary works from authors and poets from this region and the hegemonies of language ethnicity and politics that have framed these voices. As a region with rich cultural and ethnolinguistic diversity Northeast India’s literature is representative of varied histories languages socio-cultural and religious practices. The book highlights the distinct use of language forms cultural symbols and metaphors which articulates the unique experiences of conflict beauty and culture in this area. Focussing on the translingual and transcultural aspects of these literary works it examines the dynamics between literature language and their socio-cultural influences. The book pays attention to themes of representation identity and power to showcase voices and perspectives of dissent criticism and introspection. It explores contemporary critical approaches to literature from the Northeast by re-examining the idea of the centre and the periphery and the position of subaltern literary voices. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of literature language cultural studies postcolonial studies and South Asian studies. | Literatures from Northeast India Beyond the Centre–Periphery Debate

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The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

This book presents a comprehensive overview of India’s electoral democracy and political system. It provides an in-depth analysis of the 2019 parliamentary elections to explore three crucial facts of India’s political life: the legitimacy of political competition as the only basis of power; elections as the only legitimate basis of political competition; and political parties as the only legitimate agency to conduct political competition. The book argues that the vitality and resilience of India’s electoral democracy remain high owing to large mass participation in elections that are competitive and relatively free and fair. The volume includes key theoretical empirical and comparative perspectives on parties and elections from experts and covers all major political parties of India along with the performance of many representative regional parties. It discusses themes such as elections and party competition in India; ideology interest religion and gender as they affect social mobilisation and political transaction; economic and politial change and multiparty democracy; the dynamics of the Muslim vote; fluctuating electoral fortunes; and electoral campaigns and role of social media. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of political science political sociology election studies Indian politics South Asian politics and South Asian studies. It will also interest those in politics public policy and governance civil society organisations media and journalism and the general reader. | The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

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Locating BRICS in the Global Order Perspectives from the Global South

Locating BRICS in the Global Order Perspectives from the Global South

BRICS is conceivably the most formidable organisation to have emerged in the post-Cold War period in the non-Western world. This book highlights the significance of BRICS in a wider global context and foregrounds the long-pending demand for the reform of global governance institutions. The volume: • Traces how the organisation came into being and looks at the distinct norms and principles espoused by it • Discusses the glaring limitations of the existing institutions of global governance • Explores the economic growth and the rising political influence of BRICS states • Analyses the internal threats to the survival of the organisation and assesses its prospects in the foreseeable future. A significant intervention in situating BRICS as one of the major players in global governance the book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international political economy international business and finance international relations politics and Global South Studies. | Locating BRICS in the Global Order Perspectives from the Global South

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South Asia The Spectre of Terrorism

South Asia The Spectre of Terrorism

Since the partition of the subcontinent along communal lines political violence has increased in South Asia. Terrorism is one such manifestation of this violence. This book witnesses serious assessment of various aspects of terrorism that are affecting South Asia as eight scholars of international repute take a closer look at the problem. These essays discuss how terrorist activity in the region during the past few decades can be directly linked to religion-centric violence. Apart from other events this book looks at prolonged terrorism in Punjab; militancy in Kashmir; ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka; insurgency in northest India; Maoist insurgency in Nepal; and sectarian conflict in Pakistan. | South Asia The Spectre of Terrorism

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The Bhagavad-Gita for the Modern Reader History interpretations and philosophy

The Bhagavad-Gita for the Modern Reader History interpretations and philosophy

What is the Bhagavad-Gita? Is it just a religious text? When was it composed? How relevant is it to the modern world? This book answers these foundational questions and goes beyond. It critically examines the Bhagavad-Gita in terms of its liberal humanist and inclusive appeal bringing out its significance for the present times and novel applicati | The Bhagavad-Gita for the Modern Reader History interpretations and philosophy

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Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

This book analyses the creation and dissemination of discourse in China while examining how its media and the people interact and communicate with the rest of the world. It explores the interplay between language meanings social practices culture and politics in the processes of discourse generation. The book critically studies intercultural communication and Chinese discourse models at the national institutional and individual levels and the different modes of interaction between China and the world. With the help of several case studies the book analyses reports from the People’s Daily interpersonal meaning in promotional videos and advertisements in China rhetoric in the editorials of China Daily and the representation by international media like The Associated Press and The New York Times to explore differences between Chinese and the Western media reporting the same event. It also looks at the complex models through which the Chinese people—both as individuals and as a collective—communicate with and gain an understanding of the rest of the world. Rich in empirical case studies this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Chinese Studies communication studies media and cultural studies international relations and political communication. | Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

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Decolonizing Consciousness Reclaiming the Indian Psychology of Well-being

Decolonizing Consciousness Reclaiming the Indian Psychology of Well-being

The book intertwines several strands of scholarship in Indian Philosophy contemporary psychology and the lived Indian psychological practice inclusive of Yoga advaita tantra and bhakti to engage in an exploration of consciousness cognitive science and philosophy. The book examines the characteristics of consciousness by situating it in the historical and cultural contexts of Euro-American as well as Asian particularly Indian philosophical tradition specifically the Bhakti tradition and creative living. The volume decolonizes the understanding of the ecology of consciousness while accounting for the diverse strands which have given us a unique understanding of the mind psychology cognition and philosophy of the mind. This book will be of interest to students teachers and scholars of psychology consciousness studies cognitive science philosophy social psychology Yoga studies and Yoga psychology. It will also be useful for Yoga professionals social workers therapists and anyone who is interested to learn about consciousness. | Decolonizing Consciousness Reclaiming the Indian Psychology of Well-being

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Mapping the History of Ayurveda Culture Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity

Mapping the History of Ayurveda Culture Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity

This book looks at the institutionalisation and refashioning of Ayurveda as a robust literate classical tradition separated from the assorted vernacular traditions of healing practices. It focuses on the dominant perspectives and theories of indigenous medicine and various compulsions which led to the codification and standardisation of Ayurveda in modern India. Critically engaging with authoritative scholarship the book extrapolates from some of these theories raising significant questions on the study of alternative knowledge practices. By using case studies of the southern Indian state of Kerala – which is known globally for its Ayurveda – it provides an in-depth analysis of local practices and histories. Drawing from interviews of practitioners archival documents vernacular texts and rare magazines on Ayurveda and indigenous medicine it presents a nuanced understanding of the relationships between diverse practices. It highlights the interactions as well as the tensions within them and the methods adopted to preserve the uniqueness of practices even while sharing elements of healing herbs and medicine. It also discusses how regulations and standards set by the state have estranged assorted healing practices created uncertainties and led to the formation of categories like Ayurveda and nattuvaidyam (indigenous medicine/ayurvedas). Lucid and topical the book will be useful for researchers and people interested in social medicine history of medicine Ayurveda cultural studies history indigenous studies and social anthropology. | Mapping the History of Ayurveda Culture Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity

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