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Soft cover. Zustand: New. 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's 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. I. Tribute to Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray: 1. A scientist in the world of Indology: initiation of the new chapter on pre modern history of science in India/Nupur Dasgupta. 2. Framing a history of Hindu chemistry: the influence of nineteenth century historiography of chemistry on Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray/Dhruv Raina. II. Science under the lens of history: 3. Merely solving puzzles or seeking truth? Some reflections on truth science, and related matters/Santanu Chacerverti. 4. Engaging with modern science and religious orthodoxy in contemporary Islam/S. Irfan Habib. 5. Swadeshi science and P.C. Ray's Bengal chemical and pharmaceutical works/Amit Bhattacharyya. III. Of technology and social history: 6. Technology of print past and the nation: vernacular print and its role in shaping Assamese linguistic nation/Sudeshna Purkavastha. 7. Indigenous technique and artisanal works: blacksmiths in colonial Rarh Bengal/Achintya Kumar Dutta. 8. Technology and handicraft production: experience of the leather workers of Bengal: 1870-1947/Supti Raha. 9. Assistive technology: the stages of accessibility in persons with disabilities/Bubai Bag. IV. Medicine and society: 10. Institutional care for the sick: the concept of hospital in early India/Sukla Das. 11. A bridge for passing: journey of indigenous medicine in a world of medical pluralism in Bengal 1870s to 1930s/Nupur Dasgupta. 12. Ayurveda and the emergence of indigenous pharmaceutical industry in the twentieth century India/Sutapa Saha Mitra. 13. The Indian health scenario: a stock-taking of six decades/Siddhartha Gupta. Index. The present volume comprising thirteen articles covers aspects the history of science technology and medicine from the ancient to the modern period. It focuses on the scope and cultural orientations in science, history of different branches of colonial India. The role of technology in cultural nationalism, the scene of plural medicine in colonial Bengal and evolution of some indigenous pharmaceutical companies have been discussed in the discourse. It includes articles on the emerging role of assistive technology for the disabled a critique of government policy on healthcare in contemporary India and the history of healthcare institutions in ancient India. It will be of interest to researchers and general readers.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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's 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.…

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Zustand: New. Nupur Dasgupta is a Professor of History and has been teaching in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, India, since 1991. Her area of interest is Ancient Indian History and Archaeology and History of Science, Technology &amp .

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: I. On thoughts and processes in archaeology: 1. Antiquity studies, science and Amateurism: a few preliminary words/Arun Kumar Biswas. 2. Methodologies issues in excavating a prehistoric site in India: examples from Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu/Shanti Pappu and Kumar Akhilesh. 3. Archaeological interpretations: a few Randon thoughts/V. Selvakumar. 4. A note on quantification in Indian archaeology: need and caution/K. Krishnan. II. Prehistory, proto-history and early history of India: a review of emergence of human civilization and material culture: 5. The emergence of man in central Narmada Valley/A.R. Sankhyan. 6. Mesolithic culture of the upper Johila Basin, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh/Basanta Kumar Mohanta. 7. General pattern of Mesolithic culture in Bankura, West Bengal/Banani Bhattcharyya. 8. Pakhanna: a Chalcolithic-cum-early historic site in Bankura/Asok Datta. 9. Recently discovered painted rock shelters of the Vindhya-Kaimur Hills/Vibha Tripathi and Om Prakash Kumar. 10. Change and continuity: the manifestation of rock art in Andhra Pradesh/P. Chenna Reddy. 11. Kanmer: A Harappan settlement in Kachchh, Gujarat/J.S. Kharakwal, Y.S. Rawat and Toshiki Osada. 12. Harappan elements in the Sarayupar Plain with special reference to Imlidih Khurd, District Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh/Ashok Kumar Singh. 13. Special ceramics in the Harappan culture: history of a technology derived from archaeological science/Nupur Dasgupta. 14. Not by archaeology alone: analysis of data from Ai Khanum/Somnath Ghosh and Suchandra Ghosh. 15. Archaeological investigations into the internal dynamism and state formation in Mahakantara/Baba Mishra. 16. Socio-economic life in the Kapili Valley of Assam: a study based on archaeological remains/Paromita Das. III. Archaeological remains, artifact analyses and interpretations: 17. A note on the environmental degradation from the study of Chalcolithic faunal remains from the Rarh area of West Bengal/Manomay Ghosh. 18. Interaction of chemistry and archaeology: potteries-a case study/Somnath Ghosh and Suchira Roychoudhury. 19. The uses of bio-chemistry in archaeology and residue analysis of potteries/Somnath Ghosh. 20. Copper in the early cultures of middle Ganga plain/Prabhakar Upadhyay. 21. Development of wrought iron technology in the Megalithic culture of ancient Vidarbha region, Maharashtra: a review/P.P. Deshpande. 22. High-Tin bronze (Bell metal): a significant metal craft of Eastern India (Early historical and early medieval times)/Pranab K. Chattopadhyay. 23. Copper and iron metallurgy in ancient and medieval Eastern India/Prasanta Kumar Datta. 24. Legendary wootz steel from Telangana in Central Deccan/S. Jaikishan. 25. Puch-marked coins from Ghumal, Mayurbhanj, Northern Odisha/Kishor K. Basa and Basanata K. Mohanta. 26. Compositional analysis: numismatists and their collaborators/Susmita Basu Majumdar. 27. Silver coins of the Khadga dynasty of ancient Bengal/Shariful Islam. IV. Ethnography in archaeology: 28. A note on the Kushan Terracotta human figurines from Deokali with special reference to their manufacturing techniques/Prabhakar Upadhyay and Kamla Ram Bind. 29. Ethnograpny for archaeology: amongst the potters of Bishnupur, District Bankura/Sharmistha Chatterjee and Sayan Bhattacharya. 30. Megalithism: a living tradition in Manipur/Potshangbam Binodini Devi. The present volume embodies a collection of articles grouped into themes which are varied in their scope and orientation. The articles are categorized into four broad sections high-lighting on philosophical and methodological issues, specific contexts of India's prehistory to early history, material practices and technological heritage and ethnological links. A number of well-known scholars have contributed articles to make this a rich and informative volume which will enlighten readers about the present state of research in India. The contributors have explored different and specific contexts and methods of studying the past with the h.…

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