Stories
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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
- Books
Aryans in South India / P.P. Nārāyanan Nambūdiri.
Nārāyanan Nambūdiri, P. P., 1925-Date: 1992, ©1990- Books
Medicine in South India / R. Niranjana Devi.
Nirañcaṉā Tēvi, Irā.Date: 2006- Books
"The vision was of written words" : negotiating authority as a female Muslim healer in South India / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger.
Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter.Date: 1995- Books
Students' Britannica India / editor and vice president Dale Hoiberg ; editor South Asia, Indu Ramchandani.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
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Peasant history in South India / David Ludden.
Ludden, David EDate: [1985], ©1985