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Hungry Nation Benjamin Robert Siegel Index More Information Www Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42596-4 — Hungry Nation Benjamin Robert Siegel Index More Information 267 Index Aadhar smart ID card scheme, 223 Lal Bahadur Shastri’s address on, 149 Abbas, K.A., 39 – 41 Rajendra Prasad’s address on, 60 Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action rationing ofi cials’ addresses on, Lab, 224 124 , 130 Abedin, Zainul, 37 All India Radio Jawaharlal Nehru’s Abel, Martin, 216 addresses on, 71 , 76 Abhyankar, N.G., 61 All India School of Hygiene and Public Acheson, Dean, 185 Health, 193 advertising, 71 , 209 All India Trade Union Congress, 123 Agrarian Reforms Committee (1946), 158 Allahabad, 141 agricultural credit, 176 , 197 protests and strikes in, 54 from the baniya (creditor), 7 Allahabad Agricultural Institute, 191 , 193 impeded access to, 217 Ambedkar, B.R. in Kisan Sabha analysis, 155 and Dalit refugees, 65 in the Bengal famine, 26 and Republican Party of India, 181 in the United States, 184 Dalit fast in name of, 214 institutional support from the United Amery, Lord Leo, 42 States, 148 , 169 Amma Canteens, 224 M.R. Masani’s support for Ananthasayanam, M., 78 cooperative, 174 Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Prices Commission, 226 , 227 1951 elections in, 161 agriculture new agricultural strategy in, 209 budget in First Five-Year Plan, 161 Annadurai, C.N., 214 ideologies of improvement, 185 , 200 Annapoorna (restaurant), 110 imagery of, 225 – 226 anthropology of food in South Asia, inputs, 154 , 185 , 200 , 203 16 – 17 , 91 Ahmad, Ijaz, 59 Apte, Hari Narayan, 10 Ahmad, Ziauddin, 56 Argentina Alexander, Horace, 41 CPI criticism of wheat surplus in, 61 All India Agricultural Federation, 175 foodgrain imports from, 74 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Indian mission to, 58 Kazhagam (AIADMK), 224 artii cial rice, 88 , 97 , 106 All India Institute of Medical Science, 195 trials in Kerala, 106 All India Radio astrology, 203 C. Rajagopalachari’s address on Aurangabad, 229 unilateral decontrol in Madras Australia, foodgrain imports from, 94 , 139 on, 133 Aykroyd, Wallace R. colonial ofi cials’ addresses on, 42 , 58 and dietary transformation, 95 Herbert Hoover’s address on, 58 and the Bihar famine (1966), 207 Indira Gandhi’s address on, 204 and the Woodhead Commission, 43 Jawaharlal Nehru’s addresses on, 70 , and women, 108 100 , 104 , 110 Azad, Maulana, 44 , 115 267 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42596-4 — Hungry Nation Benjamin Robert Siegel Index More Information 268 268 Index Bachchan, Amitabh, 222 Bombay, 53 , 60 Bachchan, Harivansh Rai, 21 , 49 All India Women’s Council for Bajpai, G.S., 57 , 185 , 221 Supplementary Foods work in, 110 Bal Ahar (infant food), 207 corruption among food ofi cials in, 75 Bandyopadhyay, Manik, 39 exhibitions in, 110 Bandyopadhyay, Tarasankar, 39 , 160 farmers’ protests in, 229 baniya (creditor), 7 Food Advisory Committee, 139 Baroda, strikes and protests in, 61 introduction of rationing in, 121 Basu, Jyoti, 22 protests and strikes in, 53 , 121 , 144 below poverty line threshold, 222 rationing in, 124 Bengal famine (1943) reintroduction of food control in, 130 American Famine Mission to India, response to Bengal famine in, 30 , 40 58 , 183 Bombay (State). See Maharashtra and Axis propaganda, 34 Bombay Plan (1944), 46 , 51 , 52 , 97 and drafting of postwar food plan, 44 Borlaug, Norman, 201 , 217 and theater, 40 Bose, Subhas Chandra, 34 , 92 as demonstration of India’s depleted Bourke, Richard (Lord Mayo), 187 health, 51 Bowles, Chester, 144 , 189 as impetus for economic Boyd- Orr, Lord John, 70 planning, 79 , 83 Bradlee, Ben, 41 as impetus to move away from Brando, Marlon, 206 cereals, 93 British Indian Association, 122 cyclone in Midnapore district, 27 Buck, Pearl, 58 denial policy, 26 buffer stock, 88 , 136 – 137 , 142 historiography of, 24 bullock capitalists. See new farmers’ hunger marchers, 21 movement in i lm and theater, 39 – 41 Burma, 26 , 94 in Kisan Sabha analysis, 155 literature and poetry, 21 , 34 , 39 , 47 Cabinet Mission (1946), 40 , 59 philanthropy, 27 Calcutta, 29 , 37 , 65 private relief efforts, 32 , 33 , 34 , 36 1946 recurrance of shortages, 54 prostitution, 37 American troops in, 28 Ram Nath Puri’s account of the, 1 Chinese community of, 33 reception in the United Kingdom, 41 colonial excesses in, 25 Bengal Famine (1943) Direct Action Day, 59 hunger marchers, 28 early rationing efforts in, 93 beriberi, 188 hunger marchers in, 21 Bharat versus India, 230 private relief efforts in, 34 Bharatiya Janata Party, 223 protests and strikes in, 125 , 144 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 86 rationing in, 29 Bhargava, Thakurdas, 77 School of Tropical Medicine, 193 Bharti- Walmart, 224 staging of Bengal famine theater in, 40 Bhattacharjee, Kalyani, 36 California Hindu Farmers’ Association, 2 Bhattacharya, Bhabani, 47 cartoons Bhattacharya, Bijon, 40 anti- colonial, 10 , 28 Bhave, Vinoba. See Bhoodan movement anti- Communist, 36 Bhoodan movement, 163 – 165 of Jairamdas Daulatram, 71 , 75 Bihar, 87 of Jawaharlal Nehru, 173 protests and strikes in, 133 of K.M. Munshi, 87 , 112 Bihar famine (1966), 204 – 208 on the Bengal famine, 37 and family planning inducements, Casey, Richard, 26 , 42 207 caste short tether policy, 212 and agricultural planning, 74 , 83 Biswas, C.C., 32 and feeding in refugee camps, 65 Biswas, Hemango, 39 and Green Revolution violence, 213 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42596-4 — Hungry Nation Benjamin Robert Siegel Index More Information 269 Index 269 and land reform, 160 , 163 Sunil Janah’s photography for the, 37 and nutritional outcomes, 218 wartime collaboration with the British, and relief camps in the Bihar 22 , 23 , 36 famine, 207 Communist Party of India (Marxist), 213 correlation with malnutrition, 221 Community Development, 177 , 189 , in the new farmers’ movement, 230 198 , 203 censorship and the Bhoodan movement, 165 of anti- colonial materials, 1 Compton, Karl Taylor, 193 of anti- rationing sentiment, 122 Congress Working Committee, 92 , 96 of Bengal famine materials, 28 , Constituent Assembly debates, 77 – 79 , 222 30 , 32 , 33 cooperative agriculture, 162 , 170 , 174 , 198 Central Food Advisory Council, 27 in Israel, 177 Central Food Technological Research in Yugoslavia, 177 Institute (CFTRI), 104 , 106 support of Jawaharlal Nehru, 158 Central Rice Research Institute, versus collective agriculture, 178 Cuttack, 201 corn (maize) Chakravarty, Vasudha, 24 , 36 as substitute food, 97 Chalam, G.V., 201 in Illinois, 183 , 200 Chandra, Jag Parvesh. See Miss a Meal in rations, 95 , 96 movement Indian research on hybrid varieties of, Chattopadhyay, Kamaladevi, 46 , 63 194 , 195 China, People’s Republic of, 168 planting by Jawaharlal Nehru, 101 agricultural collectivization in, 164 , Rockefeller Foundation research in 169 , 171 Mexico on hybrid varieties of, 201 agricultural economics in, 169 Rockefeller Foundation’s work on foodgrain imports from, 169 Indian, 194 Indian delegations to, 138 , 169 , 170 corruption, 36 , 75 , 126 , 203 inl uence on Indian agricultural Council of Scientii c and Industrial planning, 15 , 154 , 196 Research, 99 invasion of Tibet, 168 , 176 crop lodging, 201 nutritional comparison with Cultural Workers’ Committee for Fighting India, 222 Famine (Bombay), 53 Rockefeller Foundation projects Cummings, Ralph W., 194 in, 193 Curzon, Lord George Nathaniel, 25 , 188 Chittaprosad (Chittaprosad Bhattacharya), 37 Dalit Panthers, 214 Circular- i- Azadi , 1 Damodar Valley Project, 68 cloud seeding. See Project GROMET dams, 51 , 80 , 228 Combined Food Board, Dantwala, M.L., 158 , 162 , 198 Washington DC, 54 Darling, Malcolm, 156 Communist Party of India, 4 , 25 , 30 Das, Bhubanananda, 78 and criticism of P.L. 480, 136 dates, imported from Iraq as substitute and land reform, 140 , 159 food, 104 and rationing, 121 , 132 Daulatram, Jairamdas and the Bhoodan movement, 164 and refugees, 65 criticism of Interim Government’s food Communist censure of, 112 administration, 61 correspondence with Jawaharlal criticism of substitute food drive, 112 Nehru, 102 founding of, 24 Jawaharlal Nehru’s complaints about, 100 in Bengal, 30 parliamentary censure, 68 in Kerala, 167 , 204 satire of, 68 , 75 joint protest with other parties, 54 Delhi protests and strikes, 144 exhibitions in, 110 relief efforts in Bengal, 34 farmers’ protests in, 229 student leaders in London, 22 l ag raising in, 3 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42596-4 — Hungry Nation Benjamin Robert Siegel Index More Information 270 270 Index Delhi (cont.) Etawah, 193 Food and Nutrition Exhibition in, 98 Ethiopia, Indian efforts to secure aid opening of Annapoorna restaurant in, 110 from, 59 planting of food crops in, 100 exhibitions on food and nutrition, 94 , rationing in, 123 98 , 110 refugees in, 18 , 53 , 65 expertise, 15 Vinoba Bhave’s 1951 trip to, 164 Department of Food, 1943 fair price shops, 139 , 206 , 226 establishment of, 29 Famine Inquiry Commission (1944), 25 derivative discourse, Indian nationalism famines (pre- 1943), 5 , 7 , 9 as a, 14 “Great Famine” of 1876– 1878, 188 Desai, Morarji, 144 , 195 , 227 in western India, 220 Development Advisory Ofi ce (Harvard Mughal relief efforts, 7 University), 199 farmer suicides, 225 Dey, S.K., 166 fertilizers, 79 , 82 , 210 Dharti ke Lal (1946 K.A. Abbas absence of funding for in Rajendra i lm), 39 – 41 Prasad’s i rst food plan, 61 dietary transformation, 51 , 87 , 88 and the Planning Comission, 162 and women, 108 – 111 as
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