Abstract
Writing in his Atma-Jivana-Carita on his recollections of the Great Orissa Famine of 1866, the acclaimed Oriya novelist Phakirmohan Senapati describes how Mr Ravenshaw, ‘Orissa’s great friend and benefactor’ who had recently been appointed as Commissioner, received a communication from government indicating that there was every likelihood of famine in Orissa due to drought. Two questions immediately confronted the new Commissioner. Was there any need for government action to safeguard its subjects? And, if so, what action was feasible?
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1 Introduction
- Phakirmohana Senapati, Atma-Jivana-Carita (My Times and I), Translated by John Boulton, (Bhubaneswar: Orissa Sahitya Akademi, [1917], 1985) pp 28–9.Google Scholar
- See further in Sir John Stratchey, India: its Administration and Progress (4th edition), (London: Macmillan, 1911); B. Mohanty, ‘The Orissa Famine of 1866: Demographic and Economic Consequences’, Economic and Political Weekly, 2–9 January 1993.Google Scholar
- J. Dreze and A. Sen, India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995) pp 1–2. These themes are expanded further in J. Dreze and A. Sen, Hunger and Public Action (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989); E. Ahmed, J. Dreze, J. Hills and A. Sen (eds), Social Security in Developing Countries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991); J. Dreze and Notes 225Google Scholar
- A. Sen (eds), The Political Economy of Hunger (3 volumes) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991); J. Dreze and A. Sen, Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997).Google Scholar
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