How a food crisis in India fed America's library collections - BBC News
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A books-for-grain deal allowed India to get crucial food aid while US libraries built up a treasure trove of literature.
How India's food shortage filled American libraries 30 December 2024 Share Save Add as preferred on Google Soutik Biswas India correspondent Getty Images India used local currency to buy US grain, later funding book purchases for US universities. In 1996, Ananya Vajpeyi, a doctoral student, discovered the fabled South Asia collection of books at the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library. "I've spent time in some of the leading South Asia libraries of the world, at Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard and Columbia. But nothing has ever matched the unending riches held at the University of Chicago
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