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India and the pandemic : the first year

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Orient Blackswan, Telangana : ©2021Description: xvii, 335 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9789354420092
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.196 IND-I
Contents:
Section I—Early Stages of Covid-19 in India 1. Covid-19 in India: The Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold Thomas Abraham 2. Coping with the Coronavirus Pandemic: Are Indians Safe? K. Sujatha Rao Section II—Dealing with Pandemics in India’s History 3. Covid-19 and the Spectres of Colonialism Pratik Chakrabarti 4. Manufacturing Epidemics: Pathogens, Poverty and Public Health Crises in India Sheetal Chhabria 5. ‘The Government Will Come to Its Senses’: Calcutta’s Workers and the Plague of 1898 Prerna Agarwal 6. Past and Present: Can India Beat Corona the Way it Beat Smallpox? Harish Naraindas Section III—Covid-19: The Initial Impact 7. India's Tryst with Covid-19 Vikram Patel 8. The Twin Crises of Covid-19 and How to Resolve Them Ananda Lal Roy and Maitreesh Ghatak 9. Exodus Constitutionalism: Mass Migration in Covid-19 Lockdown Times Upendra Baxi 10. Gendering the Pandemic in the Prison Pratiksha Baxi and Navsharan Singh 11. Migrant Workers, the Lockdown and the Judiciary Harsh Mander Section V—The Lockdown and After 12. India’s Lockdown Debraj Ray, S. Subramanian and Lore Vandewalle 13. Hunger Grows as India’s Lockdown Kills Jobs: Results of a Survey from 12 States Rahul Lahoti, Amit Basole, Rosa Abraham, Surbhi Kesar and Paaritosh Nath 14. How Many Casual Workers in the Cities Have Sought To Go Home? Nomaan Majid 15. The Gig Economy in the Pandemic: Outsourcing Risk, Privatising Gain? Gayatri Nair Section VI—Impact on the Economy 16. Understanding India’s Economic Slowdown: Need for Concerted Action R. Nagaraj 17. The Unequal Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis on the Labour Market Radhicka Kapoor 18. States’ Loss of Fiscal Autonomy in a Centralised Federal System M. Govinda Rao 19. Knowns and Unknowns in the Covid-19–triggered Global Economic Crisis C. P. Chandrasekhar
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Section I—Early Stages of Covid-19 in India 1. Covid-19 in India: The Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold
Thomas Abraham 2. Coping with the Coronavirus Pandemic: Are Indians Safe?
K. Sujatha Rao Section II—Dealing with Pandemics in India’s History 3. Covid-19 and the Spectres of Colonialism
Pratik Chakrabarti 4. Manufacturing Epidemics: Pathogens, Poverty and Public Health Crises in India
Sheetal Chhabria 5. ‘The Government Will Come to Its Senses’: Calcutta’s Workers and the Plague of 1898
Prerna Agarwal 6. Past and Present: Can India Beat Corona the Way it Beat Smallpox?
Harish Naraindas Section III—Covid-19: The Initial Impact 7. India's Tryst with Covid-19
Vikram Patel 8. The Twin Crises of Covid-19 and How to Resolve Them
Ananda Lal Roy and Maitreesh Ghatak 9. Exodus Constitutionalism: Mass Migration in Covid-19 Lockdown Times
Upendra Baxi 10. Gendering the Pandemic in the Prison
Pratiksha Baxi and Navsharan Singh 11. Migrant Workers, the Lockdown and the Judiciary
Harsh Mander Section V—The Lockdown and After 12. India’s Lockdown
Debraj Ray, S. Subramanian and Lore Vandewalle 13. Hunger Grows as India’s Lockdown Kills Jobs: Results of a Survey from 12 States
Rahul Lahoti, Amit Basole, Rosa Abraham, Surbhi Kesar and Paaritosh Nath 14. How Many Casual Workers in the Cities Have Sought To Go Home?
Nomaan Majid 15. The Gig Economy in the Pandemic: Outsourcing Risk, Privatising Gain?
Gayatri Nair Section VI—Impact on the Economy 16. Understanding India’s Economic Slowdown: Need for Concerted Action
R. Nagaraj 17. The Unequal Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis on the Labour Market
Radhicka Kapoor 18. States’ Loss of Fiscal Autonomy in a Centralised Federal System
M. Govinda Rao 19. Knowns and Unknowns in the Covid-19–triggered Global Economic Crisis
C. P. Chandrasekhar

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