The Botanical Heritage of India

 

 

The Botanical Heritage of India

Exhibition based on the Indian Natural History Collections in Botany and Meteorology showcasing specimens and literatures that depict some of the most crucial chapters of botanical history of India and the world during which the order of the modern natural world was shaped. On view are copies of paintings and drawings by botanical artists of species discovered by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew and corresponding artefacts from the archives of Botanical Survey of India; a collection of the Bengali manuscripts known as Puthi, one of the earliest records of indigenous knowledge of plants and their medicinal values. The exhibition also celebrates the life and work of Indian Botanist, Janaki Ammal Edavaleth Kakkat 

 

(Collaboration: Botanical Survey of India; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex)