1. Body and philosophies of healing.

2. Meanings of health in Ayurveda.

3. Classical Yoga as a religious Therapeutic.

4. Tantra and aesthetic Therapeutics.

Conclusion. Community: relationality in religious Therapeutics.

Indices. Subject indexs.

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2. Independence and the national dress.

3. Dress and material culture.

4. Imagined authenticities: dress, colonial minds, colonised bodies.

5. Dress and memory: a draughtsman’s story.

6. Conclusion.

Appendix: prescribed dress. Glossary.

Bibliography. Index.

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