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020			_a9788178241296(hb.)
082			_a333.7 ARN
100			_aArnold David _911955
245			_aThe tropics and the traveling gaze: _b india, landscape, and science 1800-1856
260			_aNew Delhi _bOrient BlackSwan _c2005
300			_axii,298p.
500			_ahttps://www.orientblackswan.com/details?id=9788178241296
520			_aThis is a book about land, as well as about India—as that region of almost continental proportions and immense physical diversity came to be known to the British and to other European travellers and observers in the first half of the nineteenth century. But it is also a book about the land, about the ways in which India’s material environment became increasingly subject to scientific scrutiny, much of it by itinerant naturalists and—centrally to this study—especially by botanists. Although there have been scholarly works that have previously discussed aspects of science and travel in colonial India, none has attempted, as this does, to see them as part of an interrelated process of observation and appropriation.
650			_aIndia _9456
650			_aHistory _9455
650			_aAsia _91845
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