While most studies of famines have treated Kalahandi as an aberration in Independent India, Hunger and Starvation in Kalahandi argues that this situation of starvation in the midst of adequate food resources is a recurring phenomenon. Deviating from the prevailing tendency in famine studies to lay the emphasis on causes, Arima Mishra focuses instead on the afflicted, their conceptions of famine and starvation, and the influence of kin networks, social relations ...
