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Health and Medicine Practice of the Indigenous Kandha Tribe in Colonial Odisha: A Historical Study

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Historical analysis reveals how Kandha health systems resisted colonial medicine interventions, showcasing indigenous resilience.

Kandha health practices persisted through colonial efforts to limit indigenous medicine, demonstrating resilience.
The study identifies policies promoting western medicine while undermining indigenous healing traditions during colonial rule.
Using archival records and oral traditions, a historical interplay between Kandha medicine and colonial interventions is explored.
Indigenous medicine was often dismissed as superstitious by colonial narratives, obscuring its scientific foundations.

Kanhar et al. (2023) studied this question.

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