Famine and Dearth Database

Economic and Social History, History

Tags

Bengalieighteenth centuryfictionHindiIndianon-fictionpamphletsperiodicalsPersianplayspoetryseventeenth centurysixteenth centurysurveystranslationUnited Kingdom

Dataset type

text

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Description

The Famine and Dearth database contains searchable transcriptions of over 700 multilingual primary sources relating to situations of famine and dearth in early modern India and Britain. The archive contains texts in ten different languages including Persian, Bengali and Hindi as well as English, and offers English translations for the majority of texts. These texts cover a wide range of genres, including chronicle histories, gazetteers, official correspondence, legislation, pamphlets, periodicals, plays, poetry, surveys, and fiction and non-fiction prose.

Authors

Ayesha Mukherjee (Pi), Amlan Dasgupta (Co-investigator), Abhijit Gupta (Co-investigator), Samantak Das (Co-investigator), Sujit Kumar Mandal (Co-investigator)

Affiliation

University of Exeter (Lead Research Oganisation), The British Library (2019 project); University of Exeter (Lead Research Oganisation), Aligarh Muslim University, University of Oxford (2014 project); Jadavpur University (listed on website)