Indian Medicinal Plants in the Shifting Terrains of Science (Record no. 60160)
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| fixed length control field | 02156 a2200217 4500 |
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| fixed length control field | 240429b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789356878389 (PB) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 633.8 |
| Item number | DAS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Dasgupta, Nupur |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Indian Medicinal Plants in the Shifting Terrains of Science |
| Sub Title | : Botanical and Medical Literature of Ninetenth-Century Bengal |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Primus Books |
| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xx, 233p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes Bibliography (203 - 228) and Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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’ series—flora, fauna, river systems, and urban ecology. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Indian Medicinal Plant |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| -- | Bengal |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Medical Literature |
| Geographic subdivision | South Asia |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Botanical Literature |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computational Biology |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| IMSc Library | Second Floor Rack No:47 Shelf No:40 | 633.8 DAS | 77706 | BOOKS |