Postcolonial developments :
Gupta, Akhil, 1959-
Postcolonial developments : agriculture in the making of modern India / Akhil Gupta. - Durham : Duke University Press, 1998. - xv, 409 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-397) and index.
1. Agrarian Populism in the Development of a Modern Nation
2. Developmentalism, State Power, and Local Politics in Alipur
3. "Indigenous" Knowledges: Agronomy
4. "Indigenous" Knowledges: Ecology
5. Peasants and Global Environmentalism: A New Form of Governmentality?
Based on fieldwork done in the village of Alipur in rural north India from the early 1980s through the 19902, this book examines development itself as a post-World War II socio-political ideological formation, critiques related policies, and explores the various uses of the concept of 'indigenous' in several discursive contexts.
9780822322139 (pbk.)
97043036
Agriculture--India--Alīpura.
Agriculture and state--India--Alīpura.
Rural development--India--Alīpura.
Ethnoscience--Alīpura.--India
Environmental policy--Alīpura.--India
Alīpura (India)--Rural conditions.
307.141209542 GUP / 007774
Postcolonial developments : agriculture in the making of modern India / Akhil Gupta. - Durham : Duke University Press, 1998. - xv, 409 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-397) and index.
1. Agrarian Populism in the Development of a Modern Nation
2. Developmentalism, State Power, and Local Politics in Alipur
3. "Indigenous" Knowledges: Agronomy
4. "Indigenous" Knowledges: Ecology
5. Peasants and Global Environmentalism: A New Form of Governmentality?
Based on fieldwork done in the village of Alipur in rural north India from the early 1980s through the 19902, this book examines development itself as a post-World War II socio-political ideological formation, critiques related policies, and explores the various uses of the concept of 'indigenous' in several discursive contexts.
9780822322139 (pbk.)
97043036
Agriculture--India--Alīpura.
Agriculture and state--India--Alīpura.
Rural development--India--Alīpura.
Ethnoscience--Alīpura.--India
Environmental policy--Alīpura.--India
Alīpura (India)--Rural conditions.
307.141209542 GUP / 007774