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Urdu Medical Texts were Debated in the Public Sphere created by Urdu newspapers.1 These newspapers mirrored the ambiguities of society as it came to grips with the plurality of Unani traditions: they carried viewpoints on both the new futuristic as well as the old preservationist Unani, And of course, the print capitalist Munshi Newal Kishore (1836–95), editor and proprietor of Lucknow’s Urdu newspaper the Oudh Akhbar, gave voice to the range of Unani traditions in his columns.
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Alavi, S. (2008). Argumentative Hakims: Debates in the Oudh Akhbar. In: Islam and Healing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583771_7
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