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State, society and market in the aftermath of natural disasters in colonial India

A preliminary exploration

Tirthankar Roy is at London School of Economics and Political Science

How did South Asian societies rebuild their economies following natural disasters? Based on five episodes from colonial India, this article suggests that between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century, the response to disasters changed from laissez-faire to more state intervention. Despite this change, post-disaster rebuilding was complicated by unspecified rights to lost property, conflicting claims to property, asymmetric information between aid-givers and receivers, conflicts between agencies, lack of cooperation between gainers and losers, and in some of these examples, clashes between the colonial state and nationalist organisations.

Indian Economic & Social History Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, 261-294 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/001946460804500204


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