http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/190 2026-04-14T19:30:33Z http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/220 Title: Re-imagining India’s National Health System (NHS) Authors: Shankar, Darshan Abstract: The article makes a case for recalibration of roles of bio-medical and Ayurveda health services in NHS based on inherent strengths of the indigenous health knowledge system, real-world clinical evidence, and critical review of the quality of evidence in bio-medicine. The article has been inspired by first-hand social interactions with many ordinary and a few extra-ordinary villagers, in several parts of rural India and with dozens of both the folk healers and physician-scholars who are living carriers of India’s health heritage. The article has also been influenced by PPST and Dharampalji. The article narrates the history of Ayurveda from the 5th century BCE to date. The insights from this history will be: firstly, the spread of Ayurveda to the West and East of the Indian subcontinent; secondly, the fact of its cultural integration, continuity and assimilation in the East till this date; and thirdly and most importantly, the epistemic and ontological roots of Ayurveda that have kept it contemporary to this day. The entry of western medicine in India and its sociological 334 impact is outlined in the article. The article critically analyses the contemporary performance of, both Ayurveda and biomedicine in India, and proposes a roadmap for reimagining and recalibrating the country’s health system. 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/219 Title: The unfinished agenda of modernization: Discovering the contemporary relevance of traditional knowledge Authors: Shankar, Darshan 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/218 Title: Roadmap for Ayurveda Education in Modern India Authors: Shankar, Darshan Abstract: The roadmap for Ayurveda education in modern India is a complex exercise. It cannot be treated as a de novo project because Ayurveda education has been imparted from 1500 BCE to this date. The amazing fact related to its long history is that the foundational texts of Ayurveda like Charaka and Sushruta Samhita have remained unchanged across more than 3500 years. Despite its antiquity, the foundational texts contain principles and operational frameworks to solve contemporary medical problems in dynamic and evolving epidemiological contexts. There is historical documentation that shows that Ayurveda spread to Persia, Greece, and to countries in Asia since fifth century BCE. However, the global influence of Ayurveda in the West and East has not yet been introduced in scholarship on history of medicine. This article points out that in order to understand educational processes, it is the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of knowledge and not only goals and pedagogy that determine the uniqueness, commonality or differences in the analysis of education. In the twentieth century, under the powerful influence of the western scheme of higher education in India, the Ayurvedic leadership, perhaps in a temporary loss of self confidence, thought it prudent to adopt and copy the educational design of western biomedical education, in order to establish parity with the mainstream. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/212 Title: Ayurvedic Perspective of Malaria Authors: Unnikrishnan, P. M.; Venugopal, S. N.; D'souza, Sarika; Shankar, Darshan 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z