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Tradition of healing
Drawing on critical Persian texts for the pre-colonial phase, Seema Alavi additionally moves beyond the standard colonial archive to deploy hitherto unused Urdu texts, pamphlets, local newspapers, and private family records. The result is a substantial revision of the existing historiography of Indian Islam’s encounter with Western medicine. Without diminishing the importance of the state, she demonstrates how an in-house struggle for hegemony can be as potent as external power during the processes that define medical, social, and national modernity. A pioneering work on the social and medical history of Indian Islam, this book will interest all historians, students of Islam’s interaction with the West, alternative modernities, and the ancient as well as contemporary struggle of the local with the global.
Islam and Healing Seema Alavi Permanent Black, Rs. 695
Revelation
Kamala Markandaya, author of the classic Nectar in a Sieve, published ten novels in all, the last of which appeared in 1982. Shortly after her death, her daughter discovered the complete draft of a new, unpublished novel: The Catalyst: Alias, Bombay Tiger.
Set in the 1980s, Bombay Tiger tells the story of Ganguli—mercurial and larger-than-life—who arrives in Bombay with little more than ruthless ambition, and becomes the city’s biggest industrialist. Ganguli is emblematic of a changing India, post the era of high socialism, beginning to be transformed by private enterprise. Bombay Tiger Kamala Markandaya Penguin, Rs. 495
New solutions
The frightening realities of increasing lifestyle diseases and our utter disconnect with the environment are playing havoc with our lives.
Empower Yourself: New Life Solutions for Health and Well-being offers a new perspective about ourselves and the environment. Empower yourself Ajay Poddar Penguin, Rs. 295
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