Magazine article
A Micro-history of a Forgotten Disaster
Economic and political weekly
07 Sep 2019
Abstract
According to Jayaraman, these projects ushered in a new paradigm that severed any relation between humans, land, and water. [...]Jayaraman affirms that any solution to these crises must restore "our broken relationship with water and land." Historical privilege predetermines the losers when cyclones, drought or any other calamity strikes. [...]instead of studying "natural" calamities as "natural," they should be treated as events embedded in historical dimensions of people's relation to their habitat and the existing sociopolitical landscape (Hewitt 1983). Unevenly Distributed Risks/Relief What these policies ushered into the forest was nothing less than an "expandable and flexible system of land tenure where the land had already been subdivided by the rivers and creeks (creating) economic pressure on those at the bottom of the tenure chain" (p 43). [...]when the cyclone struck during the month of October in 1876, it was those at the bottom who suffered the most.
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- Title
- A Micro-history of a Forgotten Disaster
- Creators
- Debjani Bhattacharyya
- Publication Details
- Economic and political weekly
- Publisher
- Athena Information Solutions Pvt. Ltd; Mumbai
- Resource Type
- Magazine article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- History
- Identifiers
- 991019187051204721