Abstract

This article offers important insights into the interrelationships between political change and nutrition policy in Tamil Nadu and their impact on nutrition levels among a range of rural households. Based on new primary sources (both documentary and interviews) and secondary data provided by other research, this article offers a substantive study of current nutrition problems in Tamil Nadu. The first part provides a framework for examining the politics of nutrition. The second section offers an account of village level differentiation in nutrition over the last quarter century and traces the role of alcohol in household nutrition, and the third focuses on the implementation of public policy in food and nutrition.

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