Kusum Nair Explained
Kusum Nair (1919–1993) was an Indian journalist, and writer on agricultural policy from the cultural side.[1] Her work challenged "agricultural fundamentalism".[2] Blossoms in the Dust, a title taken from a 1941 film, was based on a journal from 1958, when she spent a year in Indian villages.[3]
Life
She was born Kusum Prasad in Etah.[4] Her early work dealt with Indian politics, and the Bombay Naval Mutiny of 1946. A Congress Socialist Party member, she was involved in the mutiny's planning.[5]
Works
- The Army of Occupation (1946)
- Japan's Soviet Held Prisoners (1951)
- Blossoms in the Dust: The Human Factor in Indian Development (1961)
- The Lonely Furrow: Farming in the United States, Japan and India (1969)
- Three Bowls of Rice; India and Japan: Century of Effort (1973)
- In Defense of the Irrational Peasant: Indian Agriculture After the Green Revolution (1979)
- Transforming Traditionally: Land and Labour Use in Asia and Africa (1983)
References
- John Adams, Obituary: Kusum Nair (1919-1993), The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Aug., 1994), pp. 1046–1048
Notes
- http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dludden/bibessay.htm The Agrarian History of South Asia: A Bibliographic Essay
- Donald E. Voth, An Overview of International Development Perspectives in History: Focus on Agricultural and Rural Development(PDF), p. 24.
- http://ags.ou.edu/~bwallach/documents/Losing%20Asia%20-%20Ch%204.pdf (PDF)
- Web site: Hewitt's of White Oak and Collateral Families . 10 November 2007 . 2 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130102145809/http://www.north-trek.com/genealogy/database/d123.htm#P2228 . dead .
- Web site: Pakistani Women In A Changing Society . 10 November 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060826213018/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/sangat/British.htm . 26 August 2006 . dead .
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