"Starved": How the Great Odisha Famine (1866) translates through colonial violences and famine into the diasporic body (creative works, critical study

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I will address how famine, particularly the Great Odisha Famine (1866), manifests today in thediasporic body, and express this through a hybrid work of poetic and documentary auto-fiction.I also want to redress historical silences by creating an audio drama to vocalise suppressed andabsent voices.Most contemporary writers focus on India's Partition but I see no creative attempt in UK-basedwriting to exclusively highlight this famine, caused mainly by colonial authorities exporting vitalrice crops back to Britain. I will explore physiological effects of famine; probe archival silences;and translate classical, endangered Odia language within my own texts.