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Cover of 'Earthquake Number: Which hand is yours', special issue by the Chronicle-Sentinel. The editors were Syed Abdullah Brelvi and Benjamin Guy Horniman. Source: Courtesy of Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library, Patna.
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This article seeks to address a thematic thread that remains relatively unexplored in historical disaster research—victimhood—through an analysis of publications by disaster relief funds and their supporters in the aftermath of the 1934 earthquake in Bihar in northern India. By examining the representations of victimhood, I aim to explore the histo...
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... The visual and patriotic rhetoric appeared in another major publication, issued in support of the BCRC. The Chronicle-Sentinel, a collaboration between two newspapers, the Bombay Chronicle and the Bombay Sentinel, published a special earthquake issue with the title 'Earthquake Number: Which hand is yours' (Figure 2) in March 1934. 77 The two nationalist newspapers supported the work of the BCRC and the editors contributed financially to its fund. ...
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The article explores the impact of one of the deadliest disasters in the twentieth century, the East Pakistan cyclone of 1970, also known as the Great Bhola Cyclone, on the first-ever general election held in united Pakistan immediately thereafter. It argues that the cumulative dissidence of the eastern bloc since the partition of India in 1947 had reached its crescendo and made a landfall impact following the disastrous aftermath of the cyclone, which was evidenced in the general election of December 1970, creating the very triggering effect that led to a series of political events and the bloodbath that followed, eventually culminating in the formation of an independent nation-state of Bangladesh in 1971. While doing so, the article builds on the literature on disaster and electoral politics, historical disasters, and uses hitherto underexplored sources, both official and unofficial, archives, and personal memoirs.
