Arogya Niketan

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Arogya Niketan is a celebrated Bengali novel by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay that explores the clash between traditional Ayurvedic healing and modern Western medicine in a rural Indian setting.

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instanceOf Bengali-language novel
novel
author Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin India
explores cultural identity in colonial and postcolonial context
generational conflict
social change in rural India
tension between faith-based healing and scientific medicine
genre literary fiction
social novel
hasContrastingCharacterType Western-trained doctor
hasCulturalContext Ayurveda NERFINISHED
Western medicine
rural Bengali society
hasProtagonistType traditional Ayurvedic healer
hasReputation celebrated Bengali novel
language Bengali
literaryMovement 20th-century Bengali realism
literaryTradition Bengali literature
mainTheme clash between traditional Ayurvedic healing and modern Western medicine
notableFor portrayal of conflict between tradition and modernity in medicine
originalScript Bengali script
partOf Bengali literary canon
setting rural India
settingPeriod 20th century
subjectMatter conflict between empirical science and traditional knowledge systems
impact of modernization on rural communities
medical ethics in a traditional society
workOf Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay NERFINISHED

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