ABSTRACT
In the last decades of the nineteenth century Indian entrepreneurs started the industrial production of Ayurvedic and Unani (Greco-Islamic) medicines. At the end of the twentieth century the turnover of this industry was much larger than government funding of Ayurvedic and Unani education, treatment and research.1
However, in contrast to government policy towards Indian medicine this industry has not received much attention from scholars interested in the study of contemporary Indian medical traditions.2
