শুখা এলাকার মানুষ কিভাবে বাঁচতেন?

কোথায় খাবার উদ্বৃত্ত আছে সেই খবর সংগ্রহ করে(Relying upon extensive intelligence networks) চাষী আর কারিগরেরা পরিযায়ী হতেন। এবং রাষ্ট্র এই দুর্যোগ এলাকার মানুষদের তাকাভি নামক ধার দিত যাতে তারা দুর্যোগ কাটিয়ে উঠতে পারে।

Dry areas were prone to crop fluctuations, but harvest shortfalls were generally localized, at times confined to a network of a few dozen villages. Although dry zones were crisscrossed by trade routes – they were the source of raw cotton, for instance – transport costs limited the scale and scope of the trade in grain. To deal with this limitation, the inhabitants were used to being geographically mobile and traveled to places where grain supplies were abundant. Relying upon extensive intelligence networks, it was typical for peasants to leave areas of grain shortage and migrate to where it was plentiful. This strategy was supported by the political institutions of eighteenth-century India, most critically a political system that did not limit the mobility of peasants, artisans and others. Therefore, peasants and craftsmen were not hindered in their search for grain. In fact, they received incentives to move in the form of revenue concessions and even loans for investment, or taccavi, which also helped to hasten recovery after disasters

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