Hyderabad, May 13 -- Manchester University Press has announced the release of a new book by noted scholar Pramod K Nayar titled India and Imperial Vulnerability: Knowledge, Aesthetics and Subjects in British Discourses of Disaster, 1763-1939, which examines how environmental disasters shaped colonial discourse during British rule in India.
Published as part of the prestigious Studies in Imperialism series, the book analyses British representations of famines, earthquakes and cyclones in India between 1763 and 1939. The study explores how colonial authorities documented suffering and constructed narratives around disasters to justify imperial governance.
Prof Nayar examines the contrast drawn in colonial writings between the "helpless nati...