List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1. INTRODUCTION AND ORIENTATION -- 1. Historicizing yoga : the life and times of liberated souls -- 2. Yoga and the supramental being : materialism, metaphysics, and social reality -- PART 2. YOGA'S MODERN HISTORY AND PRACTICE -- 3. Swami Kuvalayananda : science, yoga, and global modernity -- 4. Birth of the anti-clinic : naturopathic yoga in a post-Gandhian, postcolonial state -- 5. Dr. Karandikar, Dr. Pal, and the RSS : purification, subtle gymnastics, and man making -- PART 3. CONCLUSION -- 6. Auto-urine therapy -- the elixir of life : yoga, Ayurveda, and self-perfection -- 7. Mimetic skepticism and yoga : moving beyond the problem of culture and relativism -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index. |