Stories
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Stories of Asian palm-leaf manuscripts
Wellcome’s Adrian Plau shares some the stories behind the Asian palm-leaf manuscripts in our collections. He reveals how British colonialism impacted this special form of knowledge transmission and the challenges involved in unearthing each manuscript’s origins and historical journey to Wellcome Collection.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
- Books
Palm-leaf and paper : illustrated manuscripts of India and Southeast Asia / by John Guy ; with an essay by O.P. Agrawal.
Guy, John, 1949-Date: 1982- Books
Rāmāyaṇa in palm leaf pictures / editor, K. Vijayan.
Date: 1997- Books
Chitra-pothi : illustrated palm-leaf manuscripts from Orissa / J.P. Das.
Dāsa, Jagannātha Prasāda, 1936-Date: 1985- Books
A descriptive catalogue of palm-leaf manuscripts in Tamil / general editors, Shu Hikosaka, G. John Samuel.
Date: 1990-<1991>- Books
Catalogue of palm-leaf manuscripts in the Śāntinātha Jain Bhaṇḍāra, Cambay / by Muni Puṇyavijaya.
Śāntinātha Jain Bhaṇḍāra (Cambay, India)Date: 1961-1966