Leiden University Press
Ending Famine in India
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About this book
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.
The involvement of this panoply of historical actors places Indian famines in the centre of the converging histories of humanitarianism, development, nutrition and (anti-) colonialism. Tracing their activities renders such convergences visible and pushes the boundaries of the history of famines in South Asia beyond its common spatial and temporal frames. Ending Famine in India examines the tripartite relationship of India, Britain and the United States, linking the late-Victorian holocausts with the struggle for food security in the 1950s.
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Figures and Tables
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
13 - Part I. Nutritional Science, Famine and Food Aid in South Asia
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Chapter 1. The Limits of Famine Relief : Colonialism, Nutritional Science, and the Indian Social Service Movement, 1890s–1930s
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Chapter 2. Food Technology, Nutritional Science, and Indo-US Entanglements in the 1940s and 1950s
49 - Part II. From Famine Relief to Community Development: The American Missionary Movement in South Asia
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Chapter 3. Worldly Needs and Religious Opportunities : The Famine Relief of American Missionaries in Bombay, 1870s–1920s
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Chapter 4. Promising Freedom from Famine : American Missionary Rural Reform, 1910s–1940s
95 - Part III. Anticolonial Famine Relief: Mobilising against Hunger and Colonialism
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Chapter 5. Famine Amid Swadeshi and Swaraj, 1900s–1920s
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Chapter 6. Famine Relief and Nationalist Politics on the Eve of Independence : The Bengal Famine of 1942–44
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Chapter 7. American Food Aid for Independent India
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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