Combining insights from extensive review of past studies and analyses, understanding of historical evolution of land relations in Kalahandi region; and empirical data from a household sample survey, the book unravels the exploitative process in the society that leads to hunger and malnutrition. The author forcefully shows how the land, labour, money, market and food interlock to the disadvantage of the poor turning them into destitutes. Even migration to get out of the trap does not help.
The author, through his painstaking research, has brought out the many faces of hunger with great sensitivity. The book is a passionate plea for stronger governmental action and a more active role of the civil society.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pradeep Harichandan
Dr. Pradeep Harichandan, an alumini of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, taught Political Science and Public Administration at P. N. Autonomous College, Khurda (Orissa) for about eleven years, from 1996 to 2007. Since 2003, he has been working as guest faculty in the Post Graduate Department of Public Administration, Utkal University. He is associated with many national and international conferences, workshops and seminars and there are many research publications to his credit. He has edited/co-edited few research journals in Political Science and Public Administration/Management. Now, he is the (elected) Editor of the research journals of Orissa Political Science Association (OPSA).Dr. Harichandan specializes in governance, public service delivery, poverty, hunger and food security. He worked as Senior Manager, Strategy and Performance Innovation Unit (Poverty Reduction) at Orissa Modernizing Government Initiative (OMGI), a DFID funded governance reform programme, from June 2007 to October 2008; and worked as Programme Head of OMGI till October 2009. He is currently working with Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad as Specialist, Urban Poverty Management at Programme Management Unit, INNURM-Orissa; and still teaching.
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