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Hungry nation : Food, famine, and the making of modern India / Benjamin Robert Siegel, Boston University.

By: Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018Description: xi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108711708
  • 9781108441964 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.10954 SIE-1 23
LOC classification:
  • HD2073 .S595 2018
Contents:
Table of contents 1. The Bengal famine and the nationalist case for food; 2. Independent India of plenty; 3. Self-help which ennobles a nation; 4. The common hunger of the country: merchants and markets in plenty and want; 5. All the disabilities which peasant and land can suffer; 6. The ideological origins of the Green Revolution; Conclusion. Landscapes of hunger in contemporary India.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Barcode
BOOKs National Law School MPP Section 338.10954 SIE-1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PB Available 37359
BOOKs National Law School MPP Section 338.10954 SIE-2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PB Available 37360

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents
1. The Bengal famine and the nationalist case for food; 2. Independent India of plenty; 3. Self-help which ennobles a nation; 4. The common hunger of the country: merchants and markets in plenty and want; 5. All the disabilities which peasant and land can suffer; 6. The ideological origins of the Green Revolution; Conclusion. Landscapes of hunger in contemporary India.

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