2023 - Leiden University Press
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Ending Famine in India : A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, c. 1890-1950
286 p.
- The task of ending famine in India was taken up by many at the beginning of the twentieth century. Only decades earlier, famine in India had been believed to be a necessary evil. Now it was the reason for the increasing activities of doctors, nutritionists, social reformers, agricultural experts, missionaries, anti-colonial activists and colonial administrators, all involved in temporary relief and finding permanent solutions to famine.
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ISBN: 9789400604490
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