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Postcolonial Developments

Agriculture in the Making of Modern India

Autor: Akhil Gupta

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Editura: Duke University Press

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This definitive study brings together recent critiques of development and work in postcolonial studi...

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Autor

Akhil Gupta

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1998

Pagini

432

EAN

9780822321835

ISBN

0822321831

Enbook ID

04936967

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

907

Dimensiuni

229 x 152

Descriere completă

This definitive study brings together recent critiques of development and work in postcolonial studies to explore what the postcolonial conditions has meant to rural people in the Third World. Focusing on local-level agricultural practices in India since the "green revolution" of the 1960s, Akhil Gupta challenges the dichotomy of "developed" and "underdeveloped, " as well as the notion of a monolithic postcolonial condition. In doing so, he advances discussions of modernity in the Third World and offers a new model for future ethnographic scholarship. Based on fieldwork done in the village of Alipur in rural north India from the early 1980s through the 19902, Postcolonial Developments 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. Gupta begins with an analysis of the connections and conflicts between the world food economy, trans-national capital, and technological innovations in wheat production. He then examines narratives of village politics in Alipur to show how certain discourses influenced governmental policies on the green revolution. Drawing links between village life, national trends, and global forces, Gupta concludes with a discussion of the implications of environmentalism as exemplified by the Rio Earth Summit and an examination of how global environmental treaties may detrimentally affect the lives of subaltern peoples. With a series of subtle observations on rural politics, nationalism, gender, modernisation and difference, this innovative study capitalises on many different disciplines: anthropology, sociology, comparative politics, cultural geography, ecology, political science, agricultural economics, and history.