Identification of future meteorological drought hotspots over Indian region: A study based on NEX‐GDDP data

Yavatmal is one of the drought prone districts in Maharashtra state of India and has witnessed an agricultural crisis to the extent that hundreds of its farmers have committed suicides in recent years. Satellite data based products have previously been used globally for monitoring and predicting of drought, but not for monitoring their extreme impacts that may include farmer-suicides. In this study, the performance of the Soil Water Index (SWI) derived from the surface soil moisture estimated by the European Space Agency’s Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) is assessed. Using the 2007-2015 data, it was found that the relationship of the SWI anomaly was bit stronger (coefficient. of correlation = 0.59) with the meteorological drought or precipitation than with the agricultural drought or crop yields of major crops (coefficient. of correlation = 0.50). The farmer-suicide rate was better correlated with the SWI anomaly averaged annually than with the SWI anomaly averaged only for the monsoon months (June, July, August, and September). The correlation between the SWI averaged annually increased to 0.89 when the averages were taken for three years, with the highest correlation occurring between the suicide rate and the SWI anomaly averaged for three years. However, a positive relationship between SWI and the suicide rate indicated that drought was not a major factor responsible for suicide occurrence and other possible factors responsible for suicide occurrence need to examine in detail.

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An overview of the hill trouts (Barilius spp.) of the Indian region

Zoos Print Journal ◽

10.11609/jott.zpj.1164b.1847-9 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 1847-1849 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

P.M. Raagam ◽

K. Rema Devi

Keyword(s):

Indian Region ◽

The Hill

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Commercial Linkages with Central Asia and Iran

The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222642.013.32 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Scott C. Levi

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

Central Asia ◽

Family Firms ◽

Indian Region ◽

Maritime Trade ◽

Historical Sources ◽

The Caucasus ◽

Commercial System ◽

Northern India

While it may seem counterintuitive, the increase in Mughal India’s maritime trade contributed to a tightening of overland commercial connections with its Asian neighbors. The primary agents in this process were “Multanis,” members of any number of heavily capitalized, caste-based family firms centered in the northwest Indian region of Multan. The Multani firms had earlier developed an integrated commercial system that extended across the Punjab, Sind, and much of northern India. In the middle of the sixteenth century, Multanis first appear in historical sources as having established their own communities in Central Asia and Iran. By the middle of the seventeenth century, at any given point in time, a rotating population of some 35,000 Indian merchants orchestrated a network of communities that extended across dozens, if not hundreds, of cities and villages in Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Iran, stretching up the Caucasus and into Russia.

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