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Postcolonial developments : agriculture in the making of modern India / Akhil Gupta.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.Description: xv, 409 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780822322139 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.141209542 GUP 007774 23
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Contents:
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?
Summary: 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.
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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.

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