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"This is the first time Indian Modern Yoga has received such sustained, in-depth treatment by a reputable and well-informed scholar. Much of the book is quite accessible to the general reader, and many of Alter's more theoretical and analytical interpretations of modern understandings of yoga, health, medicine, the body, and truth claims are novel and stimulating. Highly recommended." - Elizabeth De Michelis, Director, Dharam Hinduja Institute of Indic Research, Cambridge University; "Yoga in Modern India is a mine of thought-provoking propositions in regard to the historiography of classical and modern writing on yoga. Well written, it provides detailed and frequently provocative analyses of particular yogic ideas and practices that contribute to a more sophisticated discussion about the status of modern yoga in its various guises over the last one and a half centuries." - Waltraud Ernst, University of Southhampton, author of Plural Medicine, Tradition, and Modernity, 1800-2000"
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Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging. Based on extensive ethnographic research and an analysis of both ancient and modern texts, "Yoga in Modern India" challenges this popular view by examining the history of yoga, focusing on its emergence in modern India and its dramatically changing form and significance in the twentieth century. Joseph Alter argues that yoga's transformation into a popular activity idolized for its health value is based on modern ideas about science and medicine.
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IT WOULD be extremely surprising if anyone reading this book had not at least heard of Yoga and developed some basic idea about what it is. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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To call this book "Yoga in Modern India" is a bit of a travesty! First of all the discussion is only about Northern India, and secondly it talks a lot about the 1930s and some about the 1990s but not "modern india" of the 21st century. Nevertheless, what he does say is very interesting and thought provoking, and could be considered as somewhat contraversial by some. I would suggest that the author change the title to reflect the true content of his book.
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