Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, And The Making Of Modern India

Synopsis

This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens.

Siegel explains the historical origins of contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic, showing how food and sustenance moved to the center of nationalist thought in the final years of colonial rule. Independent India's politicians made promises of sustenance and then qualified them by asking citizens to share the burden of feeding a new and hungry state. Foregrounding debates over land, markets, and new technologies, Hungry Nation interrogates how citizens and politicians contested the meanings of nation-building and citizenship through food, and how these contestations receded in the wake of the Green Revolution. Drawing upon meticulous archival research, this is the story of how Indians challenged meanings of welfare and citizenship across class, caste, region, and gender in a new nation-state.

The first comprehensive historical account of independent India's struggle to provide food for all in the twentieth century.

Draws from archival sources in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, and English collected from archives on three continents.

Juxtaposes the accounts of politicians, bureaucrats, and planners with those of citizens themselves.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781108579001

Related ISBNs:

9781108425964, 9781108425964

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Date of Addition:

06/15/18

Copyrighted By:

Benjamin Robert Siegel

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.