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a huge success - no more famines,
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This review is from: Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India (Paperback)
The book is fundamentally one of a huge historical success. For the first time in its history, India was able to adequately feed its huge population. There have not been famines for decades.
The text has details about how agriculture developed, after the British left. Most of the population lived in rural areas, and government policies for the most part proved effective and supportive. These included electrification and the building of agricultural surpluses for years of bad harvests. Plus, of course, there was the deployment of Green Revolution, with its higher yielding rice crops. Which is not to say that deep poverty and malnutrition do not still exist. Or corruption in the government, for that matter. But famines seem to be confined to a distant part. |
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Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India by Akhil Gupta (Paperback - June 29, 1998)
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