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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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arogya Niketan canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Bengali-language novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| explores |
cultural identity in colonial and postcolonial context
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generational conflict ⓘ social change in rural India ⓘ tension between faith-based healing and scientific medicine ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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social novel ⓘ |
| hasContrastingCharacterType | Western-trained doctor ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
Ayurveda
NERFINISHED
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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
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impact of modernization on rural communities ⓘ medical ethics in a traditional society ⓘ |
| workOf | Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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