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Anandavalli, Lakshmikanthan, "The Black Death in medieval India: a historical mystery", Tangents: The Journal of the Master of Liberal Arts program at Stanford University, 6 (2007), 20-25.
- Resum
- It is now universally accepted by Western scholars that the Black Death originated in Central Asia and spread to Europe via India. Although some sources point to 1334 as the year of the epidemic in India, and some others point to 1346, neither 1334 nor 1346 is considered a watershed in Indian history. Why did a pestilence that had such an impact on one part of the world go unmentioned in another part of the world? While Petrarch was pondering if “happy posterity” would believe their “abysmal woe,” thousands of miles away in India, the Hindu kings were fighting against the Delhi Sultans, the Delhi Sultans were fighting the Bahmini Sultans, and the victorious kings were establishing new empires. The sources from the West claim that the plague decimated the population of India, but Medieval Indian history questions the presence of an epidemic of that magnitude, and it suggests that, even if there was a pestilence in India in the fourteenth century, it was not as virulent and infectious as the Black Death in Europe.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
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