Madhulika Banerjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madhulika Banerjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madhulika |
| FAMILY NAME | Banerjee |
| SIGNATURE | BANERJEE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-9502-0892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Legitimising Indian Knowledge Systems
This article addresses the issue of hierarchies within Indian medical knowledge systems as much as with biomedical knowledge. Using the lens of politics of knowledge, it seeks to examine the efforts of an organisation in Rajasthan that sought to challenge structures of authority, to establish the legitimacy of local healers who provided valuable health care at the primary level to the rural populace, especially when it was not available to them t…
Dhirubhai L. Sheth
The Politics of Knowledge in Development
The parameters of modern knowledge systems are clearly showing fault lines—that if there is a continuation of the technological systems at the heart of development, neglecting the twin issues of ecology and equity—there is a serious threat to human existence. This article seeks to answer a specific question: in the context of the twenty-first century search of offering alternatives to the hegemonic development paradigm, what kind of knowledges of…
Introduction to Special Section on the Politics of Knowledge in Development
Contemporary Conversations between Ayurveda and Biomedicine
In the context of colonial and post-colonial India, social scientific inquiry about the advent of Ayurveda into modernity has been documented and analysed as an encounter between Ayurveda and biomedicine. These studies have shown how Ayurveda as a medical knowledge system offered continuous contestation to the existing power structures at the level of market, state, and epistemology, challenging and creatively positing alternatives to biomedical …
Politics of Knowledge in the Debates on Toxicity in Ayurvedic Medicines
In the last decade, a controversy has arisen over a specific type of herbo-mineral ayurvedic preparations called bhasmas (Skt. bhasman ). The controversy mainly concerned serious complications or even the death of patients after having taken these medicines. Since these medicines were metal-based preparations, and specifically included lead or mercury, their toxicity was interpreted as causing the patients’ suffering. In response to that, in publ…
Power, culture and medicine
This article seeks to understand the encounter between Ayurveda and the modern market through an analysis of decisions regarding the product profiling, positioning and packaging of Ayurvedic medicines by its leading manufacturer, Dabur. These seemingly mundane, economic decisions are seen here as expressions of a deep operation of power, mediated through culture. The analysis takes us beyond the simplified picture of the rise of modern biomedicin…
Power, culture and medicine
This article seeks to understand the encounter between Ayurveda and the modern market through an analysis of decisions regarding the product profiling, positioning and packaging of Ayurvedic medicines by its leading manufacturer, Dabur. These seemingly mundane, economic decisions are seen here as expressions of a deep operation of power, mediated through culture. The analysis takes us beyond the simplified picture of the rise of modern biomedicin…
The Politics of Knowledge in Development
The parameters of modern knowledge systems are clearly showing fault lines—that if there is a continuation of the technological systems at the heart of development, neglecting the twin issues of ecology and equity—there is a serious threat to human existence. This article seeks to answer a specific question: in the context of the twenty-first century search of offering alternatives to the hegemonic development paradigm, what kind of knowledges of…
Power, culture and medicine
This article seeks to understand the encounter between Ayurveda and the modern market through an analysis of decisions regarding the product profiling, positioning and packaging of Ayurvedic medicines by its leading manufacturer, Dabur. These seemingly mundane, economic decisions are seen here as expressions of a deep operation of power, mediated through culture. The analysis takes us beyond the simplified picture of the rise of modern biomedicin…
Politics of Knowledge in the Debates on Toxicity in Ayurvedic Medicines
In the last decade, a controversy has arisen over a specific type of herbo-mineral ayurvedic preparations called bhasmas (Skt. bhasman ). The controversy mainly concerned serious complications or even the death of patients after having taken these medicines. Since these medicines were metal-based preparations, and specifically included lead or mercury, their toxicity was interpreted as causing the patients’ suffering. In response to that, in publ…
Contemporary Conversations between Ayurveda and Biomedicine
In the context of colonial and post-colonial India, social scientific inquiry about the advent of Ayurveda into modernity has been documented and analysed as an encounter between Ayurveda and biomedicine. These studies have shown how Ayurveda as a medical knowledge system offered continuous contestation to the existing power structures at the level of market, state, and epistemology, challenging and creatively positing alternatives to biomedical …
Dhirubhai L. Sheth
The Politics of Knowledge in Development
The parameters of modern knowledge systems are clearly showing fault lines—that if there is a continuation of the technological systems at the heart of development, neglecting the twin issues of ecology and equity—there is a serious threat to human existence. This article seeks to answer a specific question: in the context of the twenty-first century search of offering alternatives to the hegemonic development paradigm, what kind of knowledges of…
Introduction to Special Section on the Politics of Knowledge in Development
Legitimising Indian Knowledge Systems
This article addresses the issue of hierarchies within Indian medical knowledge systems as much as with biomedical knowledge. Using the lens of politics of knowledge, it seeks to examine the efforts of an organisation in Rajasthan that sought to challenge structures of authority, to establish the legitimacy of local healers who provided valuable health care at the primary level to the rural populace, especially when it was not available to them t…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Ayurvedic medicine (2 works) · Biomedicine (2 works)