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    Priyanka Chatterjee

    Priyanka Chatterjee Most of early 18th century proliferation of travel literature was an outcome of European travel expeditions to the non-European lands which embossed the idea of ‘the rest of the world’ on a European readership that was witnessing rapid expansion of imperialist desires and designs by the turn of the century. Critically examining these travel accounts, Mary Lousie Pratt zooms into two important events that endow significant understanding to…

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    Amit Baishya​

    Amit Baishya                     I would like to begin this entry on plant humanities and Assamese literature for the Indian Plant Humanities website with a few caveats. This is a preliminary and presentist endeavor to provide a working, albeit necessarily incomplete, bibliography for the nascent field of plant humanities in the Assamese context. I focus on post-twentieth century fiction and prose as…