Author

Chinmay Tumbe

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Age of Pandemics

IDEA 1
India saw an age of pandemics
Tumbe describes the century from 1817 to 1920 as an age of pandemics, when cholera, plague and influenza killed tens of millions of people in India. He argues this history has been largely forgotten.
IDEA 2
Cholera spread from Bengal
In 1817 a deadly form of cholera spread from Bengal across India and the world. Tumbe explains how trade, armies and pilgrimages helped carry the disease to distant places. Cholera returned again and again.
IDEA 3
Plague struck Bombay
In 1896 bubonic plague reached Bombay and spread across India. Tumbe describes how it killed millions over the following decades and caused panic in cities. Many people fled the city in fear.

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