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Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India. By Benjamin Robert Siegel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 280 pp. ISBN: 9781108441964 (paper). - Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind. By Nico Slate. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 237 pp. ISBN: 9780295744957 (cloth).

Food and Hunger in India

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Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India. By Benjamin Robert Siegel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 280 pp. ISBN: 9781108441964 (paper).
Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind. By Nico Slate. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 237 pp. ISBN: 9780295744957 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2021

Šumit Ganguly
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Book Reviews—South Asia
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 80 , Issue 3 , August 2021 , pp. 764 - 767
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021

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1 Amartya Sen, “How Is India Doing?,” New York Review of Books, December 16, 1982, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1982/12/16/how-is-india-doing/ (accessed May 21, 2021).

2 Becker, Jasper, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (New York: Holt, 1998)Google Scholar.

3 Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography (New York: Beacon Press, 1993)Google Scholar.

4 Frankel, Francine R., India's Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2016)Google Scholar.