Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State: North India in the Early Nineteenth Century by Sanjay Sharma
Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State: North India in the Early Nineteenth Century

Sanjay Sharma

Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State: North India in the Early Nineteenth Century

Sanjay Sharma

256 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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"The book argues that the experience of famine was intertwined with the quest for the legitimacy of rule by the colonial state. Although the state progressively advocated laissez faire, its humanitarian and pragmatic concerns resulted in a series ...

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