‘The Law of Storms’
European and Indigenous Responses to Natural Disasters in Colonial India, C. 1800–1850
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20437136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tushar Roy (0000-0002-4183-2781, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-22 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8992 • E-ISSN: 1467-8446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8446.2009.00269.x |
| OpenAlex | W2082505699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 21 |
Focusing on collective response to storms and floods in early colonial India, the paper explores obstacles to successful disaster response with one example related to meteorology of cyclones and the other the use of embankments. In both these examples, there was an attempt to build public‐private partnerships, which succeeded in the case of weather prediction and failed in river embankment. The failure is explained by two factors. Coordination and contracting were costly when the private partners had variable capacities and interests. Furthermore, whereas meteorology predicted nature, embankments interfered with nature, an intervention which carried social and economic costs
Cartography · Colonialism · Geography · Indigenous · Intervention (counseling) · Levee · Meteorology · Natural disaster · Political science · Storm · Tropical cyclone · Winter storm · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Ecology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2010
Sacred activism through seva and khidmat
Tropical cyclones and coastal communities
Atmospheric happening and weather reasoning
Historicizing Earthquake and Cyclones
Flood risk, land use and private participation in embankment maintenance in Indian Sundarbans
Drowned and Dammed
Natural Environmental Hazards and Their Management
The tools of empire
The colonial state, zamindars and the politics of flood control in north Bihar (1850–1945)
Long-term demographic trends in south Bihar
Ecology, land use and colonisation
The Crisis of Bengal Agriculture, 1870-1927— the Dynamics of Immobility
Malaria and Mortality in Bengal, 1840-1921
Development and death
Birbhum Silk Industry
Heirs apparent
State, society and market in the aftermath of natural disasters in colonial India
Nature of Dehat-I-Taaluqa (Zamindari Villages) and the Evolution of the Taaluqdari System During the Mughal Age
Looking at the sky
The Climatological Atlas of India
Who Was Responsible for the Weather? Moral Meteorology in Late Imperial China
Scientific Advice for British India
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |