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Sheetal Chhabria
Sheetal Chhabria is a historian of South Asia and the author of Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay (University of Washington Press, 2019/Orient Blackswan, 2020).
India's Covid-19 crisis is one effect of a decades-long process that has produced impoverishment, hunger, and ill-health, all at once. Its history of epidemics can offer insights into…