Roy, Tirthankar (2008) State, society and market in the aftermath of natural disasters in colonial India: a preliminary exploration. Indian Economic and Social History Review, 45 (2). pp. 261-294. ISSN 0019-4646
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How did South Asian societies rebuild their economies following natural disasters? Based on five episodes from colonial India, this article suggests that between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century, the response to disasters changed from laissez-faire to more state intervention. Despite this change, post-disaster rebuilding was complicated by unspecified rights to lost property, conflicting claims to property, asymmetric information between aid-givers and receivers, conflicts between agencies, lack of cooperation between gainers and losers, and in some of these examples, clashes between the colonial state and nationalist organisations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://ier.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 SAGE Publications |
| Divisions: | Economic History |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2010 15:02 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2024 23:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/27491 |
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