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020			_a9781009665742
028			_a: Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. _b: B-2/25, 1st Floor, Arun house, Ansari Road, Darya ganj, New Delhi _c: 3278 _d: 29/08/2026
082			_a338.16 KUM
100			_aKumar, Prakash.
245			_aA History of India's Green Revolution _b: Reign of Technocracy. _c/ Prakash Kumar.
260			_a, New Delhi _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2025.
300			_axv, 237p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b416.50
520			_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.
650			_aHistory
650			_aGreen Revolution
650			_aEnvironment
700			_aPrakash Kumar.
942			_cBOOK
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