Source: Sumita Roy Dutta CC BY-SA By Vipul Singh Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi The Covid-19 pandemic has posed a …Understanding Reverse Worker Migration during the Covid-19 Lockdown in India and the Green Revolution ABSTRACT: Coronavirus pandemic has led to reverse migration of workers to Bihar and UP, areas previously suffering from... Continue Reading →
Post-Covid World: Why I Think India Would Weather the Pandemic Storm? Vipul Singh ABSTRACT: India does have a disadvantage in terms of health, as the hospital support system is not as strong as the US and Europe. But she has a demographic dividend on her side. In post-Covid situation of the world India might have... Continue Reading →
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 →
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.
Water History and the Anthropocene Vipul Singh / Speakinghistory / November 2019 / 1236 words (5 minutes) BOOK REVIEW Jeremy J. Schmidt, Water: Abundance, Scarcity and Security in the Age of Humanity (New Delhi: Sage, 2018), pages 308. Droughts have become recurrent now a days all around the world, and climate scientists look at these... Continue Reading →
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