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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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Flora of British India / by J.D. Hooker ; assisted by various botanists.
Date: 1875-1897- Books
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Illustrations of Indian botany / by Robert Wight.
Date: 1840- Books
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On the hedge plants of India, and the conditions which adapt them for special purposes and particular localities / by Hugh F.C. Cleghorn.
Date: [1850?]- Books
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The indigenous drugs of India : short descriptive notices of the principal medicinal products met with in British India / by Kanny Lall Dey ... ; assisted by William Mair ...
Date: 1896- Books
Posthumous papers bequeathed to the honorable the East India Company. And printed by order of the government of Bengal ... Journals of travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and the neighbouring countries ... / By the late William Griffith ... Arranged by John M'Clelland.
Griffith, William, 1810-1845.Date: 1847