Indian famines and peasant victims: The case of bengal in 1943-44

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1980, Pages 205-235

  Greenough, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; BANGLADESH; CATERING SERVICE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; INDIA; MORTALITY; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTHERN ASIA;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT; INDIA; MORTALITY; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTHERN ASIA;

FOOD; FOOD SUPPLY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, MODERN; INDIA;

EID: 0019099023     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: 14698099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X00007319     Document Type: Article

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