Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Haunting TragedyCondition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: Gender, Caste and Class in the 1866 Famine of OrissaEAN: 9789390729630ISBN: 9789390729630Publisher: Manohar Publishers and DistributorsRelease Date: 04/15/2024Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: INItem Height: 254mmItem Length: 160mmAuthor: Bidyut MohantyGenre: HistoryTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureItem Width: 50mmDescription: This book is a detailed analysis of the food scarcity and epidemics among the womenfolk and other vulnerable sections of society in colonial Orissa. Its major significance lies in the fact that the food crisis, mass exodus and adverse sex ratio continue to raise questions in the contemporary world. Studies of such experiences help in re-designing strategies to meet the challenges arising from natural disasters, wars, pandemics, besides poverty and uncertain production outcomes. The study of Orissa Famine of 1866 explodes the myth upheld by the colonial administrators that women died at a lower rate than men in famines, because they could easily adapt to food scarcity and were supposedly less prone to infectious diseases. Evidence based on historical, sociological and biological factors showed that increasing male migration, much of it, leading to high mortality, explains the change in sex ratio during the colonial period. This work also shows that many of today's consumption preferences, linguistic usages and cultural habits of people, carry traces of cataclysmic experiences.Release Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A Haunting Tragedy
Publication Name: A Haunting Tragedy
Title: A Haunting Tragedy
Subtitle: Gender, Caste and Class in the 1866 Famine of Orissa
EAN: 9789390729630
ISBN: 9789390729630
Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Release Date: 04/15/2024
Release Year: 2024
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: IN
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 160mm
Author: Bidyut Mohanty
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture
Item Width: 50mm
