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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20260531T193000
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URL:https://map-india.org/map-events/in-search-for-knowledge-and-riches/
SUMMARY:In Search of Knowledge and Riches
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 ool\, 1504\, Portuguese National Library\, Lisbon\nFor centuries India was
  the nexus of a global trade in spices\, medicines\, dyes\, unguents and p
 erfumes—high‑value goods whose value rested on deep\, native knowledge
  of plants and healing. In this online talk\, renowned researcher Dr. Anna
 mma Spudich traces how archaeological finds and trade records from the fir
 st millennium onwards reveal India’s sophisticated botanical and medical
  systems\, and why by the Middle Ages “India trade was the backbone of t
 he international economy.”\n\nLearn how the late‑15th‑century Europe
 an search for direct sea routes brought Spain\, Portugal\, and later the D
 utch and British\, into India\, and how\, finding their own medical knowle
 dge inadequate for the tropics\, turned to Indian physicians and botanical
  expertise. Dr Spudich will examine these European documents from the 16th
 –19th centuries that recorded Indian medicinal\, agricultural and hortic
 ultural knowledge\, and show how these encounters broadened Western scienc
 e\, inspired artists and poets and reshaped global history.\n\nThis online
  talk is in conjunction with MAP’s ongoing exhibition\, Paper Gardens: A
 rt\, Botany and Empire\, bringing together over a hundred botanical illust
 rations\, tracing encounters between plants\, artists\, and institutions\,
  and reanimating the networks of labour and imagination that have built ou
 r understanding of the natural world.
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