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Starvation and India's democracy / Dan Banik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banik, Dan, 1969-
- Series:
- Routledge advances in South Asian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Famines--India--Prevention.
- Famines.
- Food supply--Government policy--India.
- Food supply.
- Famines--India--Kalahandi (District).
- Poverty.
- Food supply--Government policy.
- India--Kalahandi (District).
- Poverty--India--Kalahandi (District).
- Famines--India--West Bengal.
- Poverty--India--West Bengal.
- Democracy--India.
- Democracy.
- India.
- India--West Bengal.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary and abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- Democracy and starvation
- Kalahandi's poverty
- Drought and state action
- Legal interventions and administrative response to starvation
- The vocal press
- The politics of starvation and calamity relief
- Parliamentary activism
- Purulia's achievement
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415407298
- 041540729X
- 9780203962886
- 0203962885
- OCLC:
- 71812727
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