Old Potions, New Bottles is a study of how indigenous medical learning and practices were recast and reformulated with the coming of western medicine and western medical ideas through colonial rules. Analysing local responses to global enforcements in a specific yet massiv terrain-namely, colonial Punjab-Kavita Sivaramakrishnan explores the processes by which this region’s Ayurvedic practitioners and publicists set about reordering ideas and mobilizing networks ...
