February’s source of the month is a selection from Joanna Simonow’s 2023 monograph, Ending Famine in Indian: A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, ca. 1890-1950. Simonow is an assistant professor in South Asian history at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
Ending Famine in India traces the activities of a range of actors involved in creating temporary relief and permanent solutions to Indian famine, including doctors, nutritionists, social reformers, agricultural experts, missionaries, anti-colonial activists, and colonial administrators. Tracing their activities, Simonow