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OverviewThis book is an ethnographic study of the processes of agrarian change in the Malwa region of central India, over the last forty years, beginning with the introduction of soyabean cultivation in the 1970s, known as the yellow revolution, and new information technology based markets in the 2000s, called the choupals. Examining the claims of prosperity and empowerment of farmers through the yellow revolution and the information revolution, this book challenges the notion that science and technology can bring unparalleled economic growth and prosperity to rural India. It argues that both, techno-managerial ways of understanding and evaluating agriculture, as well as those which emphasize the lenses of caste, class and gender, are inadequate in capturing the diverse processes at work, in shaping the lives of rural people. Highlighting the role of the environment and technology, not in deterministic ways, but as non-human forces working upon and with human agents, it suggests that both the social and the technical must be considered together, to understand the specific trajectories of agrarian change. Drawing upon science and technology studies (STS), together with critical scholarship on the political economy of development and agrarian change, this book shows how people and things have reconfigured each other in producing the world they live in, thus contributing towards new theoretical framings of agriculture and rural transformation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richa Kumar (, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.)Publisher: OUP India Imprint: OUP India Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.550kg ISBN: 9780199465330ISBN 10: 0199465339 Pages: 413 Publication Date: 21 July 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsDedication; Acknowledgements; List of Maps; List of Figures; 1. Introduction; 2. Deceptions of Development; 3. Rhetoric of Revolution; 4. Perils of Productivity; 5. Constancy of Crisis; 6. Leveraging labour; 7. Elusive Empowerment; 8. Questions of Quality; 9. Assessing Accountability; 10. Indispensable Intermediaries; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography; IndexReviewsAuthor InformationRicha Kumar is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |