This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

The great majority of the population in colonial and postcolonial India lived in the countryside and were poor. Many were unable to find gainful work outside ag

Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the