Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire: Famines, Fevers and by U. Mukherjee

By U. Mukherjee

traditional mess ups and Victorian Empire appears on the courting among epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and tradition. It means that a lot of ways we expect this present day approximately failures, nation and society could be traced again to the 19th-century British imperial experience.

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