History of Idea of Contagion and Germ Theory Vipul Singh Book Review John Waller. The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think About Disease, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2002. Pages 200. ABSTRACT: Disease has surfaced as a key subject in environmental history especially after Alfred Crosby’s The Columbian Exchange. The book by... Continue Reading →
Migrate to Survive the Pandemic Times Vipul Singh The daily wagers are not ready to join the chorus with the urban middle class. Migration to them is a way to survive the difficult times of pandemic.Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion? Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly, everyone going home lost in... Continue Reading →
UNIFIED WORLD OF EPIDEMICS: A RELOOK Vipul Singh The contagion has unified the world yet again. Unlike the earlier epidemics in which sea and road travels were responsible for the disease transmission, the air travel has played a key role in COVID-19 becoming a pandemic. Images speak louder than words. Almost all the newspapers published... Continue Reading →
Book Review Dagomar Degroot , The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1660-1720, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp.xxii, 364. During the last two decades there has been a deluge of research on environmental history that use traditional historical sources and records along with studies of changes... Continue Reading →
विपुल सिंह आधुनिक विश्व में हम कई प्रकार की प्रकृति सम्बंधी समस्याओं से जूझ रहे हैं। पार्यावरण इतिहास इन समस्याओं को ऐतिहासिक परिपेक्ष्य में समझता है। इतिहास की इस नई विधा में हाल के दिनों में 'एंथ्रोपोसीन' शब्द काफी प्रचलित हुआ है । इस शब्द को प्रायः मानव द्वारा पर्यावरण पर पड़ रहे प्रभाव से... Continue Reading →
पुस्तक समीक्षा विपुल सिंह जेरेमी जे. श्मिट, जल: प्रचुरता, कमी और सुरक्षा मानवता के युग में (सेज, नई दिल्ली, 2018), पृ. 308. सम्पूर्ण विश्व में अब सूखा बार-बार पड़ने लगा है । जलवायु वैज्ञानिक जलवायु परिवर्तन के परिणामस्वरूप पड़ने वाले प्रकृति के इन अनियंत्रित व्यवहारों... Continue Reading →
Francis Buchanan (1762-1829) was a British surveyor who had recorded the flora and fauna, ecological setting, society and economy of four major districts of modern Bihar in great detail in early nineteenth century – Patna-Gaya, Purnea, Shahbad and Bhagalpur. Buchanan was instructed by the East India Company to proceed through Bengal in anti-clockwise direction all... Continue Reading →
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY (2020) UNIVERSITY OF DELHI Vipul Singh MA Semester II: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, 1500-2000 Course Requirements: Attendance and class participation in the form of ONE Assignment, ONE Presentation and ONE Class Test (10+10+10 = 30 marks); 70 marks for Semester Exam. Assignment would be from topics discussed in... Continue Reading →
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.
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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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.
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