“Modernization” and Agrarian Development in India, 1912–52

India's agrarian history has for the most part been cast within colonial and nationalist frameworks or in analyses of modernity and development in the South Asian historiography on both sides of the independence divide. This leaves plenty of space to discuss both the vast engagement of American...

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Published in:The Journal of Asian studies Vol. 79; no. 3; pp. 633 - 658
Main Author: Kumar, Prakash
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.08.2020
Duke University Press, NC & IL
Subjects:
20th century
Agricultural education
Asian studies
Colonialism
Ecumenism
Historiography
History
International relations
Missionaries
Modernism
Modernity
Modernization
Nationalism
Postcolonialism
Sovereignty
Trends
India
modernization
Allahabad Agricultural Institute
colonial science
American land grants
missionaries
Rockefeller Foundation
self-help
agrarian history
India
ISSN:0021-9118, 1752-0401
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Summary:India's agrarian history has for the most part been cast within colonial and nationalist frameworks or in analyses of modernity and development in the South Asian historiography on both sides of the independence divide. This leaves plenty of space to discuss both the vast engagement of American actors with Indian elite formations and modifications to the agrarian projects contingent upon those interactions. A focus on the Americanist drive for agrarian modernization in India allows for exploring the distinct cultural location of modernization in a long-term perspective and its engagement with colonial “development.” A study of their mutual interaction gives insights into modernization's somewhat distinct itinerary on the subcontinent and provides specificity to the history of the otherwise spatially wider American intervention in global and inter-Asian contexts.
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ISSN:0021-9118
1752-0401
DOI:10.1017/S0021911819001219