Ending Famine in India : A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, C. 1890-1950.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simonow, Joanna, author.

, Leiden University Press, Author.

Series:

Global Connections: Routes and Roots Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply.

Food industry and trade.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Joanna Simonow is an Assistant Professor in South Asian History at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. She has published on the history of famine relief, nutrition and development in colonial and early postcolonial India in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, South Asia and Studies in Contemporary History.

Summary:

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, missionaries, anti-colonial activists and colonial administrators, all involved in temporary relief and finding permanent solutions to famine.

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

Notes:

"Amsterdam University Press"

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ISBN:

94-006-0449-1

OCLC:

1402834504

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access