Hungry Nation - Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India

Independent India's struggle to overcome famine, hunger, and malnutrition, as told through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens alike.

List 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.

About the author

Benjamin Robert Siegel is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University. In 2014, he won the Sardar Patel Award for 'the best doctoral dissertation on any aspect of modern India'.

Summary

The story of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century. Weaving together the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens, this ambitious account traces Indian nation-building through questions of food and famine, and explains the origins of contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Robert Siegel, Benjamin Robert (Boston University) Siegel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781108425964
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42596-4
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; 20th Century, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Food & society, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Cultural studies: food and society, HISTORY / Asia / South / General