The Making of Modern Agriculture in Independent India
Global Knowledge Network, National Planning, and the Green Revolution
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The Making of Modern Agriculture in Independent India
Global Knowledge Network, National Planning, and the Green Revolution
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive historical account of agricultural development in independent India. It studies concerns regarding food shortages in the years immediately after independence, covers the debates over the introduction of Green Revolution technology, and examines the knowledge network that facilitated the introduction of new seeds.
The book presents a critical examination of agricultural modernisationāits technoscientific practices, manpower, and institutionsāand provides deeper insights into how it shaped the rural economy, the relationships it maintained with agricultural sciences, and the extensive control it sought to exert over the environment. It examines multiple facets of food crop research, from sites of knowledge production, transnational knowledge networks, and the evolution of the research community, to the challenges faced by Indian agricultural scientists.
An important contribution, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of South Asian Studies, agriculture, food security, historians of science and technology, environmental studies, developmental studies, agrarian studies, modern Indian history, and the Cold War.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Poor Soil, Rich Soil: Scientists Seek a Roadmap for āModernā Agriculture
- 2 Technology and Ideology: The Red Scare, American Technical Cooperation, and Agricultural Universities
- 3 Breads or Bullets, Cows or Crops: Indiaās Course of Transition, 1959ā64
- 4 Science as Panacea: Technocratic India Opts for the āGreen Revolutionā, 1965ā68
- 5 Technology and Agrarian-Environment: Green Revolution Technologies in Farmersā Fields
- Epilogue: Sustainable Food Future: The Emergence of Alternative Farming Methods
- Bibliography
- Index