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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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 g an illustration titled 'Cattu-tirpali’\, Hendrik van Rheede\, Itty Ach
 udan\, 1686\, Copper plate engraving on handmade laid paper\, H. 40 cm\, W
 . 51.3 cm\nFor centuries India was the nexus of a global trade in spices\,
  medicines\, dyes\, unguents and perfumes—high‑value goods whose value
  rested on deep\, native knowledge of plants and healing. In this online t
 alk\, renowned researcher Dr. Annamma Spudich traces how archaeological fi
 nds and trade records from the first millennium onwards reveal India’s s
 ophisticated botanical and medical systems\, and why by the Middle Ages 
 “India trade was the backbone of the international economy.”\n\nLearn 
 how the late‑15th‑century European search for direct sea routes brough
 t Spain\, Portugal\, and later the Dutch and British\, into India\, and ho
 w\, finding their own medical knowledge inadequate for the tropics\, turne
 d to Indian physicians and botanical expertise. Dr Spudich will examine th
 ese European documents from the 16th–19th centuries that recorded Indian
  medicinal\, agricultural and horticultural knowledge\, and show how these
  encounters broadened Western science\, inspired artists and poets and res
 haped global history.\n\nThis online talk is in conjunction with MAP’s o
 ngoing exhibition\, Paper Gardens: Art\, Botany and Empire\, bringing toge
 ther over a hundred botanical illustrations\, tracing encounters between p
 lants\, artists\, and institutions\, and reanimating the networks of labou
 r and imagination that have built our understanding of the natural world.
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