Stories
- Article
Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
- Article
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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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
- Book extract
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
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Papers re deputation to Lord Crewe re Indian medical women - formation of women's medical service for India
Date: 1912Reference: SA/MWF/C.148Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Student dissertations
Visions of healthy mothers and beautiful babies : motherhood, childhood, and the Women's Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in south India, c. 1919 - 1939 / Rebecca Jane Williams.
Williams, Rebecca Jane.Date: 2008- Pictures
Women taking leave of British soldiers about to depart on ship from England to India, 1857. Wood engraving after H. O'Neil.
O'Neil, Henry, 1817-1880.Date: [1858]Reference: 37280i- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Women's Federation
Medical Womens' FederationDate: 1879-1988Reference: SA/MWF- Archives and manuscripts
John McEwan: Population Mission to India, Jan-Feb 1990: Background material, published and unpublished: Baroda Population Research Centre: publications of Dr M E Khan
Date: 1980sReference: PP/MEW/G/5/5/2Part of: McEwan, John