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 British colonial policies around famine, land, and agricultural labor. Uniting art historical analysis with political ecology and environmental and food studies, I aim to illuminate the fraught convergence of economic liberalism and colonial humanitarianism around the issue of famine in colonial India.