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Indian Medicinal Plants In The Shifting Terrains Of Science: Botanical And Medical Literature Of Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Indian Medicinal Plants In The Shifting Terrains Of Science: Botanical And Medical Literature Of Nineteenth-Century Bengal

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Indian Medicinal Plants In The Shifting Terrains Of Science: Botanical And Medical Literature Of Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Indian Medicinal Plants In The Shifting Terrains Of Science: Botanical And Medical Literature Of Nineteenth-Century Bengal

By Ashwin Sanghi

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Indian Medicinal Plants in the Shifting Terrains of Science traces the medical and botanical reconnaissance of indigenous medicinal plants in nineteenth-century Bengal and observes their integration into the framework of modern science. These processes involved critical inroads into mapping the natural world and building foundations for the disciplines of medicine and botany in the colonies. Varied and diachronic processes of scientific review of the colony natural resources were concurrent with rapid epistemological advances on the global scene and a simultaneous build-up of utilitarian colonial configurations. This led to the eventual budding of critical nationalist and popular indigenous responses and actions, making way for a history of convergence between opposing, contrasting, balancing and adaptive forces of intellection within both the indigenous and non-indigenous spheres. The present volume arose from a deeply felt need to draw attention to the critical issues of engagements and disjuncture between science and environment as well as the increasing endangerment of medicinal plants in the present era. The documentation of this journey also sheds light on these silent species before irretrievable changes render them into oblivion. This volume on Indigenous medicinal plants focuses on one of the environmental issues covered by the ‹Reconnecting with Nature seriesflora, fauna, river systems, and urban ecology.

Book Details

Author : Ashwin Sanghi
Publisher :
HarperCollins India
Publication date : 25 July 2022
Dimension : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
Language:English
ISBN13 : 978-9356291935
Weight : 291 g
Pages Count : 422
ISBN10 : 9356291934

About the Author

AshwinSanghi is among India'shighest-selling English fiction authors. He has written several bestsellers inthe Bharat Collection (The Rozabal Line, Chanakya'sChant, The Krishna

Key, The Sialkot Saga, Keepers of theKalachakra, The Vault of Vishnu, The Magicians of Mazda and TheAyodhya Alliance) andtwo New York Times and Sunday TimesUK bestselling crimethrillers with James Patterson, PrivateIndia (sold in the U.S.as City on Fire) and Private Delhi(sold in the U.S. as Count to Ten). His novel Razor Sharp,the first book in the Kutta KadamThriller series conceptualized byAshwin, became a nationalbestseller. He mentors, collaborates and editsseveral nonfictiontitles in the 13 Steps Series on Luck, Wealth,Marks,Health and Parenting. He contributes to the opinion page of TheTimes of India.

Ashwinhas been included by Forbes India in their Celebrity 100 and by TheNew Indian Express in their Culture Power List.

Hehas won the Crossword Popular Choice Award 2012, Atta Galatta Popular ChoiceAward 2018, WBR Iconic Achievers Award 2018, the Lit-O-Fest Literature LegendAward 2018, the Kalinga Popular Choice Award 2021, and the Deendayal UpadhyayaRecognition 2023. He has also been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by JECRCUniversity, Rajasthan.

Hewas educated at Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, and St. Xavier'sCollege, Mumbai. He holds an MBA from Yale University. Ashwin lives in Mumbaiwith his wife, Anushika, and son, Raghuvir.

Why You Will Love This Book

You’ll love this book for the way it brings science, medicine, and colonial history into a single, thought‑provoking conversation. It shows you how indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants in nineteenth‑century Bengal interacted, clashed, and eventually converged with modern scientific frameworks. If you enjoy deeply researched academic works that reveal hidden intellectual histories and challenge simple colonial narratives, this book offers rich insights and lasting perspective.

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