02007nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801200007608200150019610000200021124500850023126000550031630000230037136500110039452013280040565000120173365000210174565000160176670000190178220260903133822.0260903b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781009665742  a: Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd.b: B-2/25, 1st Floor, Arun house, Ansari Road, Darya ganj, New Delhic: 3278d: 29/08/2026  a338.16 KUM  aKumar, Prakash.  aA History of India's Green Revolutionb: Reign of Technocracy.c/ Prakash Kumar.  a, New Delhib: Cambridge University Pressc, 2025.  axv, 237p.c: 24cm.  b416.50  aIn the mid-1960s, India's 'green revolution' saw the embrace of 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, the green revolution has also faced criticisms for causing ecological degradation and socio-economic inequality. This book contextualizes the 'green revolution' to show the contingencies and pitfalls of agrarian transformation. Prakash Kumar unpacks its contested history, tracing agricultural modernization in India from colonial-era crop development, to land and tenure reforms, community development, and the expansion of arable lands. He also examines the involvement of the colonial state, post-colonial elites, and American modernizers. Over time, all of these efforts came under the spell of technocracy, an unyielding belief in the power of technology to solve social and economic underdevelopment which, Kumar argues, best explains what caused the green revolution.

1)Unpacks the history of India's 'green revolution' to reveal a contested history of modernization.

2) Illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of technocratic measures and their impact on society.

3) Demonstrates the unique influences of both a colonial past and Americanist modernizing forces.  aHistory  aGreen Revolution  aEnvironment  aPrakash Kumar.