Tilling The Land: Agricultural Knowledge And Practices In Colonial India
Author: Deepak Kumar and Bipasha Raha
ISBN: 978-9384092801
Price: Rs. 1145.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
This volume sheds light on systems of agricultural knowledge, inherited agricultural practices and allied activities, adoption of new knowledge as well as attempts at modernization, and the involvement and perception of the key historical players and agricultural pioneers who initiated the process of transformation of the system of agrarian production and the creation of a new agrarian knowledge base against the backdrop of burgeoning Western scientific knowledge.
Browse this title within our Social Sciences and Education collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 324 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-9384092801.
About the Author
Deepak Kumar is Professor of History of Science and Education, Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies, School of] Social Sciences; and Concurrent Professor, Centre for Media Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Bipasha Raha is Professor and Head, Department of History, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- Students & Academic Researchers
- Language & Format
- English • Images in this review
- ISBN Reference
- 978-9384092801
- Publisher
- Primus Books
- Pan-India Delivery
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What is this book about?
This volume sheds light on systems of agricultural knowledge, inherited agricultural practices and allied activities, adoption of new knowledge as well as attempts at modernization, and the involvement and perception of the key historical players and agricultural pioneers who initiated the process...
Who should read this book?
Valuable for university students, educators, and scholars seeking authoritative reference material and structured subject mastery.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this book if you enjoy deeply researched histories that change how you see the past. It takes you inside colonial India’s fields and farms to reveal how traditional knowledge, local practices, and Western science collided and reshaped agriculture. As a premium academic reference, it offers rich insights into agrarian change, policy, and power—perfect for serious students, researchers, and anyone fascinated by how knowledge transforms societies.
- Published by Primus Books.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 324.
Catalog Description
This volume sheds light on systems of agricultural knowledge, inherited agricultural practices and allied activities, adoption of new knowledge as well as attempts at modernization, and the involvement and perception of the key historical players and agricultural pioneers who initiated the process of transformation of the system of agrarian production and the creation of a new agrarian knowledge base against the backdrop of burgeoning Western scientific knowledge.
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