1st Edition
History of the Climate Change on the Coromandel Coast Ninth–Nineteenth Centuries
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
Biography
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.
