Research Program 1 Seminar
"Monsoon Economies: Water, seasonality, and India’s development in the long run"
| Date: | Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023, 11:00-12:30 |
| Venue: | Seminar Room 3 & 4 and Held via Zoom |
| Registration: | If you wish to join the seminar by Zoom, please contact Iwasaki of Program 1 for further information on Zoom in advance. Research Program 1 Iwasaki jissen1[at]chikyu.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @.) |
| Organizers: | Research Program 1 |
| Language: | English |
| Speaker: | Professor Tirthankar Roy, Economic History Professor at London School of Economics |
| Title: | Monsoon Economies: Water, seasonality, and India’s development in the long run |
| Abstract: | In this seminar Professor Roy will discuss some of the main themes of his recent book, Monsoon Economies: India's History in a Changing Climate (The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2022). The talk introduces a recently published book that offers a radical new reading of the emergence of modern South Asia, one in which the interaction between the environment and the economy takes the center, rather than the more familiar sources of change, colonial policy and development policy. The book says that a struggle to mitigate poverty and inequality in access to water, a condition that the tropical-monsoon climate made universal, delivered economic and population growth in South Asia since the end of the 19th century, at the cost of environmental damage and political strife. |
| Contact: | Research Program 1 Iwasaki jissen1[at]chikyu.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @.) |