Locating the Indigenous
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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS IN THE SHIFTING TERRAINS OF SCIENCE: BOTANICAL AND MEDICAL LITERATURE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY BENGAL by By Nupur Dasgupta Primus Books, Delhi, 2023, 254 pp., INR 650.00
February 2024, volume 48, No 2

The book offers an interesting frame for understanding the history of medicinal plants of Bengal under British colonial contexts. Nupur Dasgupta engages with the complex process of identifying, collecting, classifying and codification of medicinal plants by British orientalists,

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