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SUMMARY:Closing Paper Gardens: Art\, Botany and Empire
DESCRIPTION:Before we say goodbye to the plants\, join us for one last cura
 tor-led walkthrough of the exhibition Paper Gardens: Art\, Botany\, and Em
 pire. \n\nBetween the 17th and 20th centuries\, the Indian subcontinent w
 as the site of extensive botanical surveys under colonial rule. Plant coll
 ection and classification were closely tied to imperial economic\, medical
 \, and political interests\, and botanical illustration played a central r
 ole in this project. Bringing together a new and historically significant 
 collection of botanical art from this period\, the exhibition draws on rec
 ent scholarship to recover the often uncredited identities and histories o
 f the Indian artists who made them.\n\nShrey Maurya\, curator of the exhib
 ition and Research Director at Impart\, leads this walkthrough through the
  layered histories embedded in these artworks\, and their relevance to how
  we understand the natural world today.\n\nPaper Gardens: Art\, Botany and
  Empire\, marks the continuation of a sustained\, years-long collaboration
  between MAP and Impart — an online platform fostering greater public en
 gagement with the art and cultural histories of South Asia.
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