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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Reviving Ayurveda in post-colonial India has paradoxically been a nationalist venture, where the post-colonial state has restructured traditions, rather than reviving traditional Ayurvedic education, training and apprenticeship. After more than a half century of Indian independence, the majority of Ayurvedic practitioners perceive the impact of British colonial rule negatively, despite the fact that they followed Western methods and frameworks to revive Ayurveda. Today, the training in and research of Ayurvedic education has moved out of the traditional apprenticeship system and into the formal education system. This paper argues that the formalisation and professionalisation of Ayurveda has created an avenue for Ayurvedic graduates to practise backdoor allopathic medicine. Modern-day Ayurvedic practitioners tend to perceive their Ayurvedic training from an allopathic perspective.
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