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Abbreviations 7 Tables and Figures 11 Acknowledgements 16 Introduction 17 Section I—Early Stages of Covid-19 in India 39 1 Covid-19 in India: The Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold 40 2 Coping with the Coronavirus Pandemic: Are Indians Safe? 47 Section II—Dealing with Pandemics in India’s History 57 3 Covid-19 and the Spectres of Colonialism 58 4 Manufacturing Epidemics: Pathogens, Poverty and Public Health Crises in India 67 5 ‘The Government Will Come to Its Senses’: Calcutta’s Workers and the Plague of 1898 79 6 Past and Present: Can India Beat Corona the Way it Beat Smallpox? 86 Section III—Covid-19: The Initial Impact 103 7 India’s Tryst with Covid-19 104 8 The Twin Crises of Covid-19 and How to Resolve Them 112 Section IV—The Law, the Judiciary and Covid-19 121 9 Exodus Constitutionalism: Mass Migration in Covid-19 Lockdown Times 122 10 Gendering the Pandemic in the Prison 139 11 Migrant Workers, the Lockdown and the Judiciary 154 Section V—The Lockdown and After 164 12 India’s Lockdown 165 13 Hunger Grows as India’s Lockdown Kills Jobs: Results of a Survey from 12 States 179 14 How Many Casual Workers in the Cities Have Sought To Go Home? 191 15 The Gig Economy in the Pandemic

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