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Autore |
Simonow Joanna |
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Titolo |
Ending Famine in India : A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, C. 1890-1950 |
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Leiden, : Leiden University Press, 2023 |
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Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2023 |
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©2023 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 pages) |
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Collana |
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Global Connections: Routes and Roots Series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Food supply |
Food industry and trade |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Amsterdam University Press" |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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The task of ending famine in India was taken up by many at the beginning of the twentieth century. Only decades earlier, famine in |
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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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