TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharma,Sanjay
TI  - Famine, philanthropy and the colonial state: North India in the early nineteenth century [electronic resource] :  
T2  - SOAS studies on South Asia
SN  - 9780199081653 (ebook) :
AV  - HC439 .S53 2001
U1  - 954.0313 23
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New Delhi, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Famines
KW  - Colonies
KW  - North India
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This book examines the lesser known aspects of the colonial state through the lens of the many famines and famine induced crimes which affected north India as it emerged from the 'chaotic' 18th century. It situates the 1837-8 famine in the political, ideological and economic processes of the colonial state which, paradoxically, continued to advocate laissez faire even as its humanitarian and pragmatic concerns (including fears of disorder) resulted in a series of interventionist policies
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195653861.001.0001
ER  -