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Synopsis The present volume is not a research publication in the conventional sense of the term. It is a collection of available documents on the historic 1959 Food Movement, which proved to be a turning point in the political history of West Bengal. This collection should be an important source-material contemporary West Bengal. The present documentary on the Food Movement consists of six parts. The first comprises documents of the Communist Party of India and its mass organizations like the All Indian Kisan Sabha on the food question in Bengal since the 1943 Famine. The second part is a selection of speeches, writings, recollections and statements on the Movement by leading Left personalities. The third part of the book incorporates reflections and commentaries on the Movement by leading Left personalities. The third part of the book incorporates reflections and commentaries on the Movement published in the leading dailies and weeklies of the time. Part four has reproduced selections from the debates in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council on the food issue and the Food Movement. The fifth part of the volume contains a selection from the debates on the Food Movement in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of the Indian Parliament). The food question in Bengal, following the 1943 famine and the subsequent Food Movement of 1959, attracted the attention of both contemporary writers and professional scholars. A selection from such writings constitutes the sixth part of the volume. This section also contains reproductions of pictures of public demonstrations and police brutalities during the Food Movement. This publication is the outcome of a collaborative project of the Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, and the UGC Special Assistance Programme of the Department of History, University of Calcutta.