Name: Anita Moudgil
Country: India

Year: 2024
Volume: Volume-9, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 16-21

Human lives are important. Human beings are the assets of an economy. Every effort must be put to save human lives from diseases.History teaches us many lessons from various Pandemics which took so many Human lives. The 1918 Pandemic or Spanish flu can be compared to Novel Corona Virus or Covid-2019.
Many significant lessons can be learnt from 1918 Pandemic and its impact on India. This will help us to save human lives from Covid-2019 Pandemic.The Proper understanding of the impact of 1918 Pandemic will help the Government and People for adopting suitable per-cautionary measures to stop the spread of Covid-2019 Virus.
The present paper explores the impact of 1918 Pandemic and of COVID-2019 on India. The objectives of the paper are:
1) To understand the nature and impact of 1918 Pandemic in India.
2) To find out the ways and methods used to handle this Pandemic during British Rule in India.
3) To compare the 1918 Pandemic and COVID -2019 Pandemics in India.
4) To find out the measures adopted for the upliftment of the Indian economy.
5) To make some suggestions.