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Letters Home
A podcast that enlivens the letters of the English sisters Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in 1801-1807 while they were in Madras, India, and enters into conversation with the researchers who investigated their lives.
Letters Home
A Decolonizing Lens and Centering the Indian Perspective with Dr. Minakshi Menon
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Dr. Menon's introduction to the special edition of South Asian History and Culture can be read here (open access):
Indigenous knowledges and colonial sciences in South Asia
For a symposium on those who were in the background of the letters: Missing Voices: South Asian Perspectives on the Gwillim Archives
other pieces:
What’s in a name? William Jones, ‘philological empiricism’ and botanical knowledge making in eighteenth-century India
Chapter in Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World