The presentation narrates some processes of the institutionalization and modernization of Ayurveda as a robust, literate classical tradition of Kerala/India. It judiciously engages with the historiography of Ayurveda and elaborates the patterns and assumptions emerged from them. The work emphasizes the need to look into the liminal spaces of interaction among knowledge practices rather than focusing on the mainstream or marginalized practices.

K P GIRIJA is an independent researcher based out of Kerala. She finished her PhD in 2016 from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society [CSCS], Bengaluru. She was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, during 2017-19. She was a grantee of the Kerala Council for Historical Research in 2019-20. Her book ‘_Mapping the history of Ayurveda: Culture, Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity_’ is published by Routledge India in November 2021. She has edited and translated the personal notes of Mandakini Narayanan, published by Women’s Imprint and Current Books as ‘Marikkatha Thaalukal: Memoirs of Mandakini Narayanan’ (2007/2013). Currently she is working on a manuscript that addresses the knowledge formation and its relation with the subjects in Ayurveda through a reading of the life narratives of Ayurveda practitioners.

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