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  • Age of Pandemics (1817-1920)

  • How They Shaped India and the World
  • Written by: Chinmay Tumbe
  • Narrated by: Abhishek Ajay Sharma
  • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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Age of Pandemics (1817-1920)

Written by: Chinmay Tumbe
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From lockdowns to lockups, viruses to vaccination, the movement of people to the movement of bowels, from rats to cats, and more, The Age of Pandemics chronicles the many facets of the cholera, plague and influenza pandemics, which claimed over 70 million lives between 1817 and 1920, with India being the epicenter in all these episodes. 

A time otherwise known for the worldwide spread of the industrial revolution, imperialism and globalization, the period between the early nineteenth century and the early twentieth century was also the "age of pandemics". This book documents the scale of devastation, the likely causes and consequences, and the resilience with which people faced those uncertain times.

It also provides the first comprehensive coverage of the world's greatest demographic disaster ever to descend upon a country in a short period of time —the influenza pandemic in India in 1918—which claimed more lives than all the battle casualties of World War I, and demonstrates the continuing relevance of learning from those times to tackle contemporary challenges, such as COVID-19.

©2020 Chinmay Tumbe (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

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It's 80 to 90% only chronology of the pandemics.

It's 80 to 90% only chronology of the three main pandemics.

And I didn't expect a chronology of the events. But something more. Perhaps the real life true stories of that time was what I expected. I would not keep this audio book, but will swap it.

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