Ending Famine in India A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, C. 1890-1950
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, mi...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Global Connections: Routes and Roots Series
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009754440206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. Nutritional Science, Famine and Food Aid in South Asia
- Chapter 1. The Limits of Famine Relief : Colonialism, Nutritional Science, and the Indian Social Service Movement, 1890s-1930s
- Chapter 2. Food Technology, Nutritional Science, and Indo-US Entanglements in the 1940s and 1950s
- Part II. From Famine Relief to Community Development: The American Missionary Movement in South Asia
- Chapter 3. Worldly Needs and Religious Opportunities : The Famine Relief of American Missionaries in Bombay, 1870s-1920s
- Chapter 4. Promising Freedom from Famine : American Missionary Rural Reform, 1910s-1940s
- Part III. Anticolonial Famine Relief: Mobilising against Hunger and Colonialism
- Chapter 5. Famine Amid Swadeshi and Swaraj, 1900s-1920s
- Chapter 6. Famine Relief and Nationalist Politics on the Eve of Independence : The Bengal Famine of 1942-44
- Chapter 7. American Food Aid for Independent India
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
