Published on
Mar 21, 2025
A warning from WWII Nilgiris on the paradoxical relationship between forests and food
In the years after World War II broke out in 1939, the British military in the subcontinent began to fall short of food. Early 1943, the military demand for vegetables peaked for troops stationed in the Madras province and erstwhile Ceylon. In January that …
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