Natural Disasters and Indian History - Couverture souple

Roy, Tirthankar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198075375 ISBN 13 : 9780198075370

Editeur : OUP India, 2012

Synopsis

This short and exploratory study is the first to engage with a social and economic history of natural disasters in India. Based on the study of a number of events that occurred in colonial India between 1770 and 1935, the author argues that the impact of natural disasters requires a graded sense of time.

The book draws on three themes-market, politics, and knowledge, roughly corresponding to three time scales-the short, the medium, and the long run, respectively. These frame the case studies of famines, earthquakes, and storms covered in the book. These studies illustrate that disasters become devastating events by impairing the capacity of the state and civil society; they create gainers and losers; and they destroy cooperation. Yet, as the author points out, disasters have also enabled new understandings of nature, state, and society, on the basis of which useful new knowledge could grow.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198075375
• ISBN 13: 9780198075370
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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