Contested Retro-botanizing and Embedded Traditions in Colonial Bengal

The South Asian Studies Council welcomes to its Colloquium series Projit Mukharji, Assistant Professor in the History and Sociology of Science and the Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  Professor Mukharji will deliver a talk titled “Bajrang Bali in Brazil? Contested Retro-botanizing and Embedded Traditions in Colonial Bengal, c. 1890-1940”.

4.30pm, April 3 · Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Professor Mukharji holds a PhD from the University of London, and is the author of Nationalizing the Body: The Market, Print and Healing in Colonial Bengal, 1860-1930 (Anthem Press, 2009).  He has co-edited several books, including: Medical Marginality in South Asia: Situating Subaltern Therapeutics (Routledge UK, 2012), and Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). His research interests span postcolonial technoscience, colonial medicine, indigenous medical traditions, subaltern science, everyday technologies, substance histories, and machinic imaginaries.