The paper attempts to study nature of the contest between indigenous and western medicines in the public sphere during the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. Western medicine was introduced initially for benefit of Europeans in India and later extended to Indian population as a tool of empire. Gradually it marginalised indigenous medicine with help of state power and colonised indigenous bodies to get cultural domination. Revitalisation of Indian medicines started with through professionalisation, systematisation, standardisation and their important aspects were exposed in print media as a tool to contest against the hegemony of western medicine in the public sphere. Numerable tracts, pamphlets, journals and books of indigenous medicine were published to counter the hegemony of western medicine. Here the focus is on discourses of physicians of indigenous and western medicines, published in the print media in colonial south India, and how the former made efforts to counter the hegemony of western medicine.

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南印度殖民地的土著和西方医学：话语的性质和影响

本文试图研究19世纪末至20世纪初公共领域中本地和西方医学之间竞争的性质。西方医学最初是为欧洲人在印度的利益而引入的，后来作为帝国的工具扩展到印度人口。逐渐地，在国家权力的帮助下，土著医学被边缘化，殖民的土著机构获得了文化上的统治。印度药的复兴始于专业化，系统化，标准化，其重要方面已在印刷媒体上曝光，以此作为在公共领域对抗西药霸权的工具。出版了无数篇关于土著医学的小册子，小册子，期刊和书籍，以抗衡西方医学的霸权。