Idea of initiating big projects is relevant even in today’s time when the country is facing economic slowdown. The construction of highways, railway networks, metro line projects, and the monuments could work as magic for the tottering economy.
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Climate Crisis and the Making of Early Modern Monuments
Vipul Singh / Speakinghistory / November 2019 / 5 minutes (1040 words)
ABSTRACT: When variation in rainfall and intensity of droughts became very high in the seventeenth century Shahjahan used state’s treasury for grand projects to give employment to suffering cultivators during drought years so that they survive and come back to plantation again when life would return to normal.
India has witnessed many monsoon failures, delayed monsoon, unseasonal rains, and torrential rains in formerly drier regions in recent few years. There are also occurrences of deluge in riverine landscapes and flood in cities due to heavy downpour. These unpredictable weather events have been linked to global warming and resultant climate change by the climate scientists. India is not the only country where climatic crisis is being experienced. It is happening in different parts of the world.
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