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Hungry Nation - Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Hardcover)
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Hungry Nation - Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Hardcover)
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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.
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