Enraciner l’empire
On 5 October 1864, a violent storm wrecked the Ganges valley. Calcutta, the capital of the British Empire in India, was devastated. “The once famous Botanic Gardens of Calcutta are now to be counted amongst the things of the past”, the Gardener’s Chronicle declared. Three decades later, however, the...
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| description | On 5 October 1864, a violent storm wrecked the Ganges valley. Calcutta, the capital of the British Empire in India, was devastated. “The once famous Botanic Gardens of Calcutta are now to be counted amongst the things of the past”, the Gardener’s Chronicle declared. Three decades later, however, the garden had become one of the most eminent symbols of the British Empire. Visitors flocked to see the Great Banyan, a gigantic tree that looked like a forest. The botanists working in its renowned herbarium, with its thousands of specimens from all parts of the Raj, made important contributions to botanical classification. They were required to contribute to imperial economic endeavours by acclimatizing new species and making crops more profitable. In the histories they wrote, the garden appeared as the epitome of colonial competence and prestige. This book is an alternative history of the Calcutta Botanic Garden which examines the ambiguous role it played in the colonial sphere. Using hitherto unexplored archives, Marine Bellégo describes the everyday life of one of the largest colonial botanic gardens, its dreary routines, relentless struggles, and dismal failures. The garden was largely defined by the many tensions that ran through it: visitors were troublesome, plants died, messages were lost, objects and documents disappeared. The garden was a microcosm of the contradictions, ambiguities, and structural violence of the imperial system. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1450562024-09-16T09:54:48Z Enraciner l’empire Bellégo, Marine nineteenth century botany British Empire India archives gardens thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science On 5 October 1864, a violent storm wrecked the Ganges valley. Calcutta, the capital of the British Empire in India, was devastated. “The once famous Botanic Gardens of Calcutta are now to be counted amongst the things of the past”, the Gardener’s Chronicle declared. Three decades later, however, the garden had become one of the most eminent symbols of the British Empire. Visitors flocked to see the Great Banyan, a gigantic tree that looked like a forest. The botanists working in its renowned herbarium, with its thousands of specimens from all parts of the Raj, made important contributions to botanical classification. They were required to contribute to imperial economic endeavours by acclimatizing new species and making crops more profitable. In the histories they wrote, the garden appeared as the epitome of colonial competence and prestige. This book is an alternative history of the Calcutta Botanic Garden which examines the ambiguous role it played in the colonial sphere. Using hitherto unexplored archives, Marine Bellégo describes the everyday life of one of the largest colonial botanic gardens, its dreary routines, relentless struggles, and dismal failures. The garden was largely defined by the many tensions that ran through it: visitors were troublesome, plants died, messages were lost, objects and documents disappeared. The garden was a microcosm of the contradictions, ambiguities, and structural violence of the imperial system. 2024-09-16T09:54:45Z 2024-09-16T09:54:45Z 2021 book ONIX_20240916_9782856539705_262 9782856539705 9782856539699 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/145056 fre Archives image/jpeg n/a https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9782856539705/from/openedition https://books.openedition.org/mnhn/12368 Publications scientifiques du Muséum 10.4000/books.mnhn.12368 On 5 October 1864, a violent storm wrecked the Ganges valley. Calcutta, the capital of the British Empire in India, was devastated. “The once famous Botanic Gardens of Calcutta are now to be counted amongst the things of the past”, the Gardener’s Chronicle declared. Three decades later, however, the garden had become one of the most eminent symbols of the British Empire. Visitors flocked to see the Great Banyan, a gigantic tree that looked like a forest. The botanists working in its renowned herbarium, with its thousands of specimens from all parts of the Raj, made important contributions to botanical classification. They were required to contribute to imperial economic endeavours by acclimatizing new species and making crops more profitable. In the histories they wrote, the garden appeared as the epitome of colonial competence and prestige. This book is an alternative history of the Calcutta Botanic Garden which examines the ambiguous role it played in the colonial sphere. Using hitherto unexplored archives, Marine Bellégo describes the everyday life of one of the largest colonial botanic gardens, its dreary routines, relentless struggles, and dismal failures. The garden was largely defined by the many tensions that ran through it: visitors were troublesome, plants died, messages were lost, objects and documents disappeared. The garden was a microcosm of the contradictions, ambiguities, and structural violence of the imperial system. 10.4000/books.mnhn.12368 b94f019c-29b1-4f49-ab5f-9d9624d71a14 9782856539705 9782856539699 559 Paris open access |
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