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Starvation and India’s Democracy
Series: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
This book analyzes India’s impressive efforts in responding to sensational and easily visible disasters in contrast to the ‘silent emergency’ of drought-induced under nutrition and starvation deaths. Building on Amartya Sen’s famous claim that no famine has ever occurred in a democratic country, it...
Published April 20th 2009 by Routledge