A History of India's Green Revolution - Reign of Technocracy

"India's 'green revolution' embraced more productive agricultural practices and high yielding variety seeds, bringing the country out of food scarcity. Although lauded as a success of the Cold War fight against hunger, Prakash Kumar argues this was part of a much broader, contested history of agrarian modernization in India"-- Provided by publisher.

Sommario

Introduction; 1. Colonial technocracy; 2. Development through people's participation; 3. Making Tarai the granary of the province; 4. A decolonizing perspective and technocracy in Uttar Pradesh; 5. Realization of modernization dreams?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Info autore

Prakash Kumar is Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kumar Prakash
• Editore: Cambridge Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2025
• EAN: 9781009646581
• ISBN: 978-1-009-64658-1
• Illustrazioni: Worked examples or Exercises
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; India, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, Agriculture and farming, Development Studies, HISTORY / Asia / South / General