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abf-341	Kottai, Sudarshan R	On the cusp of ‘modernity’: Ayurveda’s tryst with ‘development’ in Nepal	2020	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1540	64	39	The book consisting of six lengthy chapters, and adopts a semi- biographic approach focusing principally on eight formally trained Ayurvedic doctors wherein contemporary Ayurveda is “narrated through the subject lives and agency of its doctors” (4). Revolving around everyday narratives and practices of Ayurveda that are constructed by official discourses of the state, informal practitioners, biomedical specialists and political figures including the prime minister, Cameron presents a complicated and conflicted landscape of traditional Ayurveda at the cusp of disenfranchisement, delegitimization and extinction in Nepal.	cache/abf-341.pdf	txt/abf-341.txt