Independent India of Plenty: Food, Hunger, and Nation-Building in Modern India

This dissertation situates debates over food procurement, provision, and hunger as the key economic and social contestations structuring the late colonial and postcolonial Indian state. It juxtaposes the visions of national statesmen against those advanced by party organizers, scientists, housewives...

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Main Author: Siegel, Benjamin Robert
Other Authors: Bose, Sugata
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11598
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274281