Minakshi Menon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minakshi Menon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minakshi |
| FAMILY NAME | Menon |
| SIGNATURE | MENON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Erasmus Darwin's Gardens
What’s in a name? William Jones, ‘philological empiricism’ and botanical knowledge making in eighteenth-century India
What is Indian Spikenard?', asked the eighteenth-century orientalist, Sir William Jones (1746–1794), in a famous paper, 'On the Spikenard of the Ancients,' published in Asiatick Researches, Volume II (1790). The question serves here as a point of entry into Jones's method for creating culturally specific plant descriptions to help locate Indian plants in their Indian milieu.This paper discusses Jones's philological method for identifying the jaṭā…
Indigenous knowledges and colonial sciences in South Asia
What do we mean when we use the category ‘indigenous knowledges’? What do we mean when we speak of ‘colonial sciences’? This Introduction briefly examines these questions in order to provide a context for the collection of articles presented in this issue on the making of the sciences in colonial South Asia. In doing so, it also addresses related questions: The translation of terms – does the Sanskrit word śāstra correspond to the English science…
Transferrable Surveys
In 1807 the English East India Company published a report by Dr Francis Buchanan (1762–1829), a Scottish medic in its employ. The report, titled A Journey from Madras, marked an important moment in colonial savoir faire – the emergence of the statistical survey as a form of natural historical knowledge-making in colonial India. What is not generally known is that Buchanan, who received his MD from the University of Edinburgh, had learnt the proce…
Grains of paradise and reading against the grain
Medicine, Money, and the Making of the East India Company State
In a fascinating revisionist study of the English East India Company (EIC) in seventeenth-century India, the historian Philip J. Stern has pointed out how the EIC was by its very organization a government in its own right, deserving analysis on its own terms. He calls it the Company-State, a formation that came into being as part of an early modern empire that was itself constituted through sets of overlapping and competing political forms, of wh…
Subaltern Studies II
Sangeeta Singh, Minakshi Menon, Pradeep Kumar Dutta, Biswamoy Pati, Radhakanta Barik, Radhika Chopra, Partha Dutta, Sanjay Prasad, Subaltern Studies II: A Review Article, Social Scientist, Vol. 12, No. 10 (Oct., 1984), pp. 3-41
Indigenous knowledges and colonial sciences in South Asia
What do we mean when we use the category ‘indigenous knowledges’? What do we mean when we speak of ‘colonial sciences’? This Introduction briefly examines these questions in order to provide a context for the collection of articles presented in this issue on the making of the sciences in colonial South Asia. In doing so, it also addresses related questions: The translation of terms – does the Sanskrit word śāstra correspond to the English science…
Transferrable Surveys
In 1807 the English East India Company published a report by Dr Francis Buchanan (1762–1829), a Scottish medic in its employ. The report, titled A Journey from Madras, marked an important moment in colonial savoir faire – the emergence of the statistical survey as a form of natural historical knowledge-making in colonial India. What is not generally known is that Buchanan, who received his MD from the University of Edinburgh, had learnt the proce…
What’s in a name? William Jones, ‘philological empiricism’ and botanical knowledge making in eighteenth-century India
What is Indian Spikenard?', asked the eighteenth-century orientalist, Sir William Jones (1746–1794), in a famous paper, 'On the Spikenard of the Ancients,' published in Asiatick Researches, Volume II (1790). The question serves here as a point of entry into Jones's method for creating culturally specific plant descriptions to help locate Indian plants in their Indian milieu.This paper discusses Jones's philological method for identifying the jaṭā…
Subaltern Studies II
Sangeeta Singh, Minakshi Menon, Pradeep Kumar Dutta, Biswamoy Pati, Radhakanta Barik, Radhika Chopra, Partha Dutta, Sanjay Prasad, Subaltern Studies II: A Review Article, Social Scientist, Vol. 12, No. 10 (Oct., 1984), pp. 3-41
Medicine, Money, and the Making of the East India Company State
In a fascinating revisionist study of the English East India Company (EIC) in seventeenth-century India, the historian Philip J. Stern has pointed out how the EIC was by its very organization a government in its own right, deserving analysis on its own terms. He calls it the Company-State, a formation that came into being as part of an early modern empire that was itself constituted through sets of overlapping and competing political forms, of wh…
Grains of paradise and reading against the grain
Transferrable Surveys
In 1807 the English East India Company published a report by Dr Francis Buchanan (1762–1829), a Scottish medic in its employ. The report, titled A Journey from Madras, marked an important moment in colonial savoir faire – the emergence of the statistical survey as a form of natural historical knowledge-making in colonial India. What is not generally known is that Buchanan, who received his MD from the University of Edinburgh, had learnt the proce…
Indigenous knowledges and colonial sciences in South Asia
What do we mean when we use the category ‘indigenous knowledges’? What do we mean when we speak of ‘colonial sciences’? This Introduction briefly examines these questions in order to provide a context for the collection of articles presented in this issue on the making of the sciences in colonial South Asia. In doing so, it also addresses related questions: The translation of terms – does the Sanskrit word śāstra correspond to the English science…
What’s in a name? William Jones, ‘philological empiricism’ and botanical knowledge making in eighteenth-century India
What is Indian Spikenard?', asked the eighteenth-century orientalist, Sir William Jones (1746–1794), in a famous paper, 'On the Spikenard of the Ancients,' published in Asiatick Researches, Volume II (1790). The question serves here as a point of entry into Jones's method for creating culturally specific plant descriptions to help locate Indian plants in their Indian milieu.This paper discusses Jones's philological method for identifying the jaṭā…
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