V. Sujatha is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Leena Abraham is Associate Professor at the Centre for Studies in the Sociology of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
V. Sujatha and Leena Abraham

PART I
Knowledge and Society: Ancient Medicine in the Contemporary Set-up
1.  Contrasting Approaches to Health and Disease: Ayurveda and Biomedicine
Rama Jayasundar
2.  Ayurveda in the Twenty-First Century: Logic, Practice and Ethics
Maarten Bode
3.  The Patient as Knower: Principle and Practice in Siddha Medicine
V. Sujatha

PART II
Medicine, State and Society
4.  AYUSH and Public Health: Democratic Pluralism and the Quality of Health Services
Ritu Priya
5.  Tension, Placation, Complaint: Unani and Post-Colonial Medical Communalism
Neshat Quaiser

PART III
Away from the State: Initiatives of Practitioners and Protagonists
6.  Competing for Medical Space: Traditional Practitioners in the Transmission and Promotion of Siddha Medicine
Brigitte Sébastia
7.  Medicine as Culture: Indigenous Medicine in Cosmopolitan Mumbai
Leena Abraham

PART IV
Competing Indigenities: Mainstream versus Marginal in Medicine and Healing
8.  Strengthening Childbirth Care: Can the Maternity Services Open Up to Indigenous Traditions of Midwifery?
Mira Sadgopal
9.  Global Standards and Local Medical Worlds: The Case of Childbirth Practices
Tulsi Patel
10. Recovering from Psychosocial Traumas: The Place of Dargahs in Maharashtra
Bhargavi V. Davar and Madhura Lohokare
11. Local Health Practitioners in India: Resilience, Revitalisation and Reintegration
Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana and G. Hariramamurthi
12. Commercialising Traditional Medicine: Ayurvedic Manufacturing in Kerala
M. S. Harilal

Glossary
References
List of Contributors
Index