Conclusion

Abstract

This Book has Traced the Trajectories of Indo-Musli m—Unani—medicine and its largely Muslim practitioners from the Mughal period to the early twentieth century. It has sought to capture the social history of the period as it unfolded in the Gangetic valley, away from the glare of the colonial state. It suggests that in this vital and considerable terrain of life, political oppression and economic exploitation notwithstanding, colonial subjects substantially made their own history. This was possible because they had in Unani their own robust intellectual tradition, which was characterized by ingenuity and adaptability.