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Trace the development of the famine policy of the British in India between 1876 and 1921. Did it provide relief to the people?

  • UPSC 2005
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

Between 1876 and 1921 famine moved from being treated as an unavoidable natural visitation to a subject of codified state policy, though the shift in doctrine did not translate into a proportionate reduction in suffering.

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  • The Background Before 1876
  • The Great Famine of 1876–78 and the Turn Toward Codification
  • The Famine Code and Its Successive Revisions
  • Persistent Constraints: Laissez-Faire and Fiscal Conservatism
  • World War I and the Interwar Reorganisation
  • Did the Policy Provide Genuine Relief?

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