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Author: Liza Oliver

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Railroad cutting by workers at a famine relief camp, Gajner, Rajasthan, 1899 (India Office Records, British Library)

Empire of Hunger: Representing Famine, Land, and Labor in Colonial India

May 2, 2025May 28, 2025 Liza Oliver

Funding Source: Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society and NEH Summer Stipend – This book project explores the many famines that devastated South Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century and how photographs aided in the constitution of … Continue reading Empire of Hunger: Representing Famine, Land, and Labor in Colonial India

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