Mapping the History of Ayurveda: Culture, Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity authored by Girija KP is a milestone in the new critical scholarship on the history of medicine in India. The book foregrounds the heterogeneous planes of knowledge interaction between Ayurveda and other knowledge systems and traces the evolution of Ayurveda as a classical tradition along with the parallel growth of nattuvaidyam, its indigenous counterpart. Nattuvaidyam (as known in Malayalam) is a set of indigenous healing practices clubbed together as a miscellaneous category