MIT Press, Sachbücher, Monsoon Economies: India/'s History in a Changing Climate (Englisch, Tirthankar Roy, 2022)

&ldquo Examining the high costs of India&rsquo s success in managing water resources in a tropical monsoon climate, Tirthankar Roy guides historians and economists alike along a fresh path for interpreting the past and future environment.&rdquo &mdash Alan Mikhail, Chace Family Professor of History, Yale University author of Under Osman&rsquo s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History &ldquo Monsoon seasonality provides the framework for Roy to bring together the histories of modern India&rsquo s economy with its experience with water scarcity. The book provides a model for integrating economic and environmental history.&rdquo &mdash David Gilmartin, Professor of History, North Carolina State University &ldquo In Monsoon Economies, Tirthankar Roy has turned his formidable talents to the environment, showing geography&rsquo s crucial role in modern India's economic development.&rdquo &mdash Prasannan Parthasarathi, Professor of History, Boston College &ldquo Roy shows how water shaped India&rsquo s development path by constraining the utility of land, labor, and capital, hence the nature of capitalism.&rdquo &mdash Kaoru Sugihara, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan &ldquo Roy examines the economic life of South Asia through the prism of water, and shows his readers how this simple move requires a rethinking of much that we think we know about development, environment, and fairness. This is an eye-opening book.&rdquo &mdash Jan de Vries, Professor Emeritus of History and Economics, University of California, Berkeley.