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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
Table 1. Ration Sizes according to the Provisional Famine Code of 1883
Chapter 2. Food Technology, Nutritional Science, and Indo-US Entanglements in the 1940s and 1950s
Fig. 1. British Food Supplements for Bengal. The Hindustan Times November 7, 1943.
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
Fig. 2. The Karmarkar Family: To the left and right of Gurubai Karmarkar, who is at the centre of the picture, are children the couple had adopted. The different status of these children within the composite family is rendered visible through the embroide
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
Fig. 3. Victims of British Rule. Cover page of Free Hindusthan I: 8 (Nov 1908). Reproduced courtesy of the South Asian American Digital Archive.
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
Fig. 4. India. The Time for Mediation is now. An ad placed by the India League of America in the New York Times. Source: New York Times (28 Sep 1942), 9.
Conclusion
Notes
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