Entitlement, shortage and the 1943 Bengal Famine: Another look

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-72

  Tauger, Mark B ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; FAMINE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NATURAL DISASTER;

ASIA; BENGAL; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 2042524374     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0306615031000169125     Document Type: Article

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