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Aditya Balasubramanian
Aditya Balasubramanian is a senior lecturer in history at Australian National University and the author of Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India (Princeton University Press, 2023).
Food shortages in Travancore during the Second World War led to tens of thousands of deaths. The scale of the mismanagement of relief wore thin the legitimacy of princely rule, setting the stage for…