BIBFRAME Work

Title

A history of India's green revolution

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Kumar, Prakash, 1967- (author )

Subject

• Agriculture--Political aspects--India, Northwestern--History--20th century (LCSH)
• Green Revolution--India, Northwestern--History--20th century (LCSH)
• Technocracy (LCSH)

Language

• eng

Classification

• DDC: 338.10954/5 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: S471.I32 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"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.

Table of Contents

Colonial technocracy -- Development through people's participation -- Making Tarai the granary of the province -- A decolonizing perspective and technocracy in Uttar Pradesh -- Realization of modernization dreams?

Authorized Access Point

Kumar, Prakash, 1967-. A history of India's green revolution

Geographic Coverage

• India

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-12T01:39:36.567570+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24139872

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-12
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc