Environment and Social History: Kalahandi, 1800-1950. (1st October 1999)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pati, Biswamoy
• Is Part Of: Environment and history. Volume 5:Number 3(1999:Jul.)
• Page Start: 345
• Page End: 359
• Publication Date: 1999-10-01
• Subjects: Human ecology -- History -- Periodicals; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Periodicals; Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Periodicals; 304.209
• DOI: 10.3197/096734099779568272
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0967-3407

Abstract

This paper examines the social history of Kalahandi in western Orissa over the 1800-1950 period, in an attempt to explore the roots of the famine which haunts the region even today. It delineates the pre-colonial origins of the crisis, and the way Kalahandi's colonisation reinforced the problems.