TY - JOUR PY - 2002// TI - Gender, Forests and Famine in 19th-Century Chotanagpur, India JO - Indian journal of gender studies A1 - Damodaran, Vinita SP - 133 EP - 163 VL - 9 IS - 2 N2 - This paper examines the links between deforestation and famine in the context of the late-19th-century food crisis in Chotanagpur. It attempts to understand the phenomenon famine as a gendered one, and explores the cultural and gendered meanings of hunger. In doing so it looks at the symbolism of the landscape and the gendering of it by local communities in Chotanagpur.

LA - SN - 0971-5215 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097152150200900201 ID - ref1 ER -