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Tilling the land : agricultural knowledge and practices in colonial India / editd by Deepak Kumar, Bipasha Raha

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Delhi : Primus Books, 2016.
Physical Description
xiv, 323 pages ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Kumar, Deepak, 1952- and Raha, Bipasha

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Science in Agriculture: A Study in Victorian India / Deepak Kumar -- 3.Contextualizing Modern Science in Agriculture in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1928: A Case of Productionist Discourse / Arnab Roy -- 4.Modernizing Agriculture in the Colonial Era: A View from Some Hindi Periodicals, 1880-1940 / Sandipan Baksi -- 5.Missionaries as Agricultural Pioneers: Protestant Missionaries and Agricultural Improvements in Twentieth-Century India / Rajsekhar Basu -- 6.Transformation of Agricultural Practices: An Indigenous Experiment in Colonial Bengal / Bipasha Raha -- 7.Barbaric Hoe and Civilized Plough: Tribes, Civilizational Discourse and Colonial Agriculture in the Khasi-Jaintia Hills of North-Eastern India / Sajal Nag -- 8.Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in a Bengal District: Burdwan under Colonial Rule / Achintya Kumar Dutta -- 9.Strains of Settlement: Reclamation and Cultivation in the Sundarbans---Myth and History / Sutapa Chatterjee -- 10.Cattle, Cruelty, Cow Doctors: Examining Animal Health in Rural Bengal, 1850-1920 / Samiparna Samanta -- 11.Cattle Breeding Policies in Colonial India / Himanshu Upadhyay -- 12.Agrarian Distress: The Political Economy of British India in the 1930s / S.M. Mishra -- 13.In Quest of Plenty: Hunger and Agricultural Technology in India, 1955-1967 / Madhumita Saha.
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9384092800
9789384092801
9789384092818 (POD)
9384092819 (POD)
9789384092825 (e-book)
9384092827 (e-book)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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