Impacts of Historical Pandemics on India: Through the Lens of 20th Century Hindi Literature

India has been swept by pandemics of plague, influenza, smallpox, cholera and other diseases. The scale and impact of these events was often cataclysmic and writers offered a glimpse into the everyday life of ordinary people who lost their lives and livelihoods and suffered the angst and trauma of m...

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Main Author: Prachi Priyanka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2021-04-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
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Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3791/3659