Stories
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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.
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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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India: human bodies burning on a funeral pyre; one corpse in foreground. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 575394i- Archives and manuscripts
India Meerut
Date: 1977-1980Reference: WTI/LEP/C/1/10Part of: LEPRA (formerly The British Leprosy Relief Association, now LEPRA Health in Action)- Archives and manuscripts
India Meerut
Date: 1984-1988Reference: WTI/LEP/C/1/11Part of: LEPRA (formerly The British Leprosy Relief Association, now LEPRA Health in Action)- Pictures
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India: a man seated on an elephant by the banks of a river. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 575380i- Archives and manuscripts
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India: medical women in, miscellaneous
Date: Early 20th centuryReference: SA/MWF/C.150Part of: Medical Women's Federation