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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 and early modern ages.
List of contents
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1. The Historical Setting
2. Waterscapes: The Rainfall in Tamil Country, Ninth-Nineteenth Centuries
3. The Famine and Drought in Tamil Society, Ninth-Nineteenth Centuries
4. The Storms and Cyclones of Tamil Littoral and the Europeans, Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries
5. Hazards of Sea, Land and Water: Floods, Tsunamis and Earthquakes, Ninth-Nineteenth Centuries
6. The Study of Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure: Technology Transfer from Europe to Tamil Coast, Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries
7. Concluding Remarks
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the author
S. Jeyaseela Stephen is Directeur, Institut pour études Indo-Européennes. 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.
Summary
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 and early modern ages.
