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The complexities of our colonial legacy

It happened by accident. In 1829 the naturalist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward was trying to hatch a moth pupa. He placed it in a sealed glass container, along with some soil and dried leaves, and set it aside. Sometime later he was surprised to find that a fern and some grass had taken root in the

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HARDtalk-20211008-03:48:00

wasn'tjust a science project. it was also a commercial, exploitative project, exploiting indigenous peoples, their plant knowledge and their plants in the farest corners of the world. without doubt. kew, for 200—plus years, sent plant—collecting trips all around the world. now, those individuals on those trips were entirely reliant on local knowledge, understanding the attributes of plants, the location of plants — cinchona, for instance, the plant that provides the bark for malaria. it was local knowledge that identified the right species of cinchona tree with the most effective anti—malarial properties. so kew absolutely has travelled the world for 250 years, reliant upon local indigenous knowledge about plants, so we have benefited from that, and it's an integral part of our history. what matters to us now is we tell those stories fully. do you think it's time for you, as the leader of kew today, to issue a formal apology for the exploitation which underpinned kew�*s activities in the past?

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HARDtalk-20211007-03:48:00

wasn'tjust a science project. it was also a commercial, exploitative project, exploiting indigenous peoples, their plant knowledge and their plants in the farest corners of the world. without doubt. kew, for 200—plus years, sent plant—collecting trips all around the world. now, those individuals on those trips were entirely reliant on local knowledge, understanding the attributes of plants, the location of plants — cinchona, for instance, the plant that provides the bark for malaria. it was local knowledge that identified the right species of cinchona tree with the most effective anti—malarial properties. so kew absolutely has travelled the world for 250 years, reliant upon local indigenous knowledge about plants, so we have benefited from that, and it's an integral part of our history. what matters to us now is we tell those stories fully. do you think it's time for you, as the leader of kew today, to issue a formal apology for the exploitation which underpinned kew�*s activities in the past? i'm not sure that apologising would achieve anything.

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HARDtalk-20211007-23:47:00

that we re—examine our history, including our colonial imperial history. kew is absolutely a product of empire, without doubt... deeply rooted, to coin a phrase that's very relevant, deeply rooted in colonialism. i think that's true, yes. kew was set up in the mid—19th century, its formation in the mid—19th century, in a sense, as a vehicle of empire. economic botany, moving valuable plants around the empire, was absolutely central to kew�*s public purpose... yeah, so this wasn't... from the very beginning, it wasn'tjust a science project. it was also a commercial, exploitative project, exploiting indigenous peoples, their plant knowledge and their plants in the farest corners of the world. without doubt. kew, for 200—plus years, sent plant—collecting trips all around the world. now, those individuals on those trips were entirely reliant on local knowledge, understanding the attributes of plants, the location of plants — cinchona, for instance, the plant that provides the bark for malaria. it was local knowledge that identified the right species of cinchona tree with the most effective anti—malarial

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HARDtalk-20211006-23:47:00

including our colonial imperial history. kew is absolutely a product of empire, without doubt... deeply rooted, to coin a phrase that's very relevant, deeply rooted in colonialism. i think that's true, yes. kew was set up in the mid—19th century, its formation in the mid—19th century, in a sense, as a vehicle of empire. economic botany, moving valuable plants around the empire, was absolutely central to kew�*s public purpose... yeah, so this wasn't... from the very beginning, it wasn'tjust a science project. it was also a commercial, exploitative project, exploiting indigenous peoples, their plant knowledge and their plants in the farest corners of the world. without doubt. kew, for 200—plus years, sent plant—collecting trips all around the world. now, those individuals on those trips were entirely reliant on local knowledge, understanding the attributes of plants, the location of plants — cinchona, for instance, the plant that provides the bark for malaria. it was local knowledge that identified the right species of cinchona tree with the most effective anti—malarial properties.

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Mungpoo bungalow nourishes memories of Rabindranath Tagore - The Hindu BusinessLine

February 06, 2021
Home in the hills: The bungalow was home to noted Bengali author Maitreyi Devi and her husband - SUGATO MUKHERJEE
Home in the hills: The bungalow was home to noted Bengali author Maitreyi Devi and her husband - SUGATO MUKHERJEE×
A bungalow in Mungpoo, a village near Darjeeling, is a proud bearer of the Nobel Laureate’s memories
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On his four visits to Mungpoo over two years, the septuagenarian covered the last 10-km stretch from the village of Rambi in a palanquin
* Quaint little Mungpoo developed around a government-owned cinchona plantation
* Tagore was prolific during his Mungpoo staycations and produced some of his final works from this Himalayan residency

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