Kalahandi : the untold story /

By:

Pradhan, Tapan Kumar

Material type: Text

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9788194579700

Subject(s):

Kalahandi (India : District) -- Scheduled tribes -- Social conditions -- Fiction. Kalahandi (India : District) -- Scheduled tribes -- Social conditions -- Poetry. Rural poor -- India -- Kalahandi (District) -- Fiction

DDC classification:

821.8 P896K

Contents:

Once known as the “rice bowl” of Odisha, Kalahandi became infamous for large scale starvation deaths in the 1980s. The agrarian economy of Kalahandi was devastated following a 20 year famine starting in 1965. The author contends that although the famine was a natural disaster, the starvation deaths were an avoidable manmade disaster. The real life stories and poems in this book describe in graphic details the economic and sexual expoitation of poor tribals of Kalahandi by the scheming moneylenders, businessmen, contractors, politicians and indifferent bureacrats.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	SAIACS General Stacks	Fiction	821.8 P896K (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		060197

Once known as the “rice bowl” of Odisha, Kalahandi became infamous for large scale starvation deaths in the 1980s. The agrarian economy of Kalahandi was devastated following a 20 year famine starting in 1965.

The author contends that although the famine was a natural disaster, the starvation deaths were an avoidable manmade disaster.

The real life stories and poems in this book describe in graphic details the economic and sexual expoitation of poor tribals of Kalahandi by the scheming moneylenders, businessmen, contractors, politicians and indifferent bureacrats.

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