Subject to Famine : : Food Crisis and Economic Change in Western India, 1860-1920 / / Michelle Burge McAlpin.
Michelle McAlpin moves beyond the concerns of previous studies of famine (most of which focus on governmental procedures designed to alleviate it) and examines hitherto neglected problems, such as the quantitative evaluation of food grain shortages, the nature and extent of popular insurance mechani...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1983 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Maps. List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1. Food Crises and Famines
- 2. The Famine Phenomenon: Insecurity and Adaptation
- 3. The Demographic Consequences of Famines
- 4. The Agrarian System and the Impact of British Rule
- 5. Economic Change in Western India, 1860-1920
- 6. Changes in the Consequences of Instability: Famines and Famine Relief Under the Raj, 1860-1920
- 7. A Reinterpretation of a Century of Change
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index