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History of the Climate Change on the Coromandel Coast : Ninth-Nineteenth Centuries

Author :  S Jeyaseela Stephen

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Country
India
Publisher
Manohar Publisher and Distributors, New Delhi
ISBN 9789394262553
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2023
Bib. Info 217p.; 24cm. Includes Bibliography and Index
Product Weight 400 gms.
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This book offers a deeper historical context to the interplay between the physical fortunes of climate and weather and the ways, in which the Tamil society experienced it in the medieval age. It touches upon the rainfall, famines and droughts, storms and cyclones, earthquakes, floods and tsunamis, temperature and atmospheric pressure of the modern age, noticed by the Catholic and Protestant missionaries, Euro­pean traders, travellers, the East India Company officials and servants using scientific instruments. Based on a greater variety of Tamil sources, missionary letters and reports, British and French colonial records the monograph presents the reading of history through the lens of climate and provides a more complete picture of Tamil landscape and environment in South India from the ninth to the nineteenth century. About the Author S. Jeyaseela Stephen is Directeur, Institut pour etudes Indo-Europeennes. He was Professor of Maritime History (2001-2013) at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. He is the author of numerous books on maritime history of early modern India, his publications in­clude, The Coromandel Coast and its Hinterland: Economy, Society and Political System ad 1500-1660; Expanding Portuguese Empire and the Tamil Economy (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries). He received the best book prize of 1999 from the Government of Tamil Nadu. His books have been translated into Chinese, Danish, German and Tamil.

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