Author: Malabika Chakrabarti
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125023890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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This book is a focussed treatment of a famine both as an 'event' and a 'process'. It is a close-up of a peasant economy in the throes of a crisis which temporarily eroded the value-system determining the normal pattern of entitlements. An investigation of the socio-economic, ecological and cultural determinants of the famine helps evolve a coherent framework. The emphasis is on the distinctive problems of the various economic regions, most notably the tribal belts. Chakrabarti applies Amartya Sen's theory of exchange entitlements to a nineteenth century famine situation in Bengal, and finds that a market-based entitlement failure precipitating severe famine conditions, even without receiving any impulse from food production , has little relevance here. Though teh book underlines the predicament of the subalterns, the famine is not seen from the viewpoint of any specific group or community. The focus is, rather, on the phenomenon of famine in its totality---on the agony and trauma of a peasant society thrown out of gear in an abnormal situation, and the crisis of identities that ensued.
The Famine of 1896-1897 in Bengal
Author: Malabika Chakrabarti
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125023890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
This book is a focussed treatment of a famine both as an 'event' and a 'process'. It is a close-up of a peasant economy in the throes of a crisis which temporarily eroded the value-system determining the normal pattern of entitlements. An investigation of the socio-economic, ecological and cultural determinants of the famine helps evolve a coherent framework. The emphasis is on the distinctive problems of the various economic regions, most notably the tribal belts. Chakrabarti applies Amartya Sen's theory of exchange entitlements to a nineteenth century famine situation in Bengal, and finds that a market-based entitlement failure precipitating severe famine conditions, even without receiving any impulse from food production , has little relevance here. Though teh book underlines the predicament of the subalterns, the famine is not seen from the viewpoint of any specific group or community. The focus is, rather, on the phenomenon of famine in its totality---on the agony and trauma of a peasant society thrown out of gear in an abnormal situation, and the crisis of identities that ensued.
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125023890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
This book is a focussed treatment of a famine both as an 'event' and a 'process'. It is a close-up of a peasant economy in the throes of a crisis which temporarily eroded the value-system determining the normal pattern of entitlements. An investigation of the socio-economic, ecological and cultural determinants of the famine helps evolve a coherent framework. The emphasis is on the distinctive problems of the various economic regions, most notably the tribal belts. Chakrabarti applies Amartya Sen's theory of exchange entitlements to a nineteenth century famine situation in Bengal, and finds that a market-based entitlement failure precipitating severe famine conditions, even without receiving any impulse from food production , has little relevance here. Though teh book underlines the predicament of the subalterns, the famine is not seen from the viewpoint of any specific group or community. The focus is, rather, on the phenomenon of famine in its totality---on the agony and trauma of a peasant society thrown out of gear in an abnormal situation, and the crisis of identities that ensued.
Selection of Papers Relating to the Famine of 1896-97 in Bengal: Apr.-May 1897
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Selection of Papers Relating to the Famine of 1896-97 in Bengal: Dec. 1896-Jan. 1897
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Selection of Papers Relating to the Famine of 1896-97 in Bengal: July-Aug. 1897
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Selection of Papers Relating to the Famine of 1896-97 in Bengal: Aug.-Sept. 1897
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Selection of Papers Relating to the Famine of 1896-97 in Bengal: Sept. 1897-Mar. 1898
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Selection of Papers Relating to the Famine of 1896-97 in Bengal: June-July 1897
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Selection of Papers Relating to the Famine of 1896-97 in Bengal: Feb.-Mar. 1897
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Selection of Papers Relating to the Famine of 1896-97 in Bengal: Jan.-Feb. 1897
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Appendices to the Final Resolution of the Government of Bengal Upon the Famine of 1896 and 1897
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