Ending Famine in India
A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, c. 1890-1950
Published on 3. July 2023
Book
Hardback
286 pages
978-90-8728-404-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 s/w Abbildungen
9 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-8728-404-6 (9789087284046)
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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.
Content
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
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