India S White Revolution

Author : Bruce A. Scholten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857713551

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India's White Revolution by Bruce A. Scholten Pdf

As millions continue to face a future of food poverty, lessons can be learned by considering how farmer cooperatives succeeded in improving India's food security. 'Operation Flood', which revitalised the Indian dairy industry between 1970 and 1996, was the world's largest development programme, however critics accused it of luring India to neocolonial dependence on European surpluses. Eventually the perils of reliance on food aid were managed by proper pricing policies that both benefited rural farming families and wiped out urban 'milk famines'. In 2008 the World Bank hailed the programme's success and now promotes similar schemes in Africa. A detailed understanding of India's White Revolution is therefore imperative in the context of its future use in the developing world.

Author : Verghese Kurien
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788174368850

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I Too Had a Dream by Verghese Kurien Pdf

Born in Calicut, Kerala, Dr Verghese Kurien graduated in science and engineering from Madras University and Michigan State University, US, respectively. He began his career in dairying at the government's creamery in Anand, Gujarat, later joining the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers'Union Limited (now Amul). As chairman of the National Dairy Development Board, he implemented 'Operation Flood'. He has received countless awards, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1963), Wateler Peace Prize (1986), World Food Prize (1989) Padma Shri (1965), Padma Bhushan (1966) and Padma Vibhushan (1999). Dr Kurien is currently Chairman of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand; Chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation; and Chairman of the National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India. Gouri Salvi is a Mumbai-based freelance journalist. She has worked with Onlooker and Sunday magazines, and with the Women's Feature Service. She has written on development and gender issues, has co-edited Beijing! a book on the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women, and edited Development Retold: Voices From the Field, a book on the Indian Cooperative Union.

Author : M. V. Kamath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Dairy scientists
ISBN : CORNELL:31924051997389

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Management Kurien-style by M. V. Kamath Pdf

Author : Verghese Kurien
Publisher : TATA McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015041627616

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An Unfinished Dream by Verghese Kurien Pdf

Collection of speeches in chronological order of the chairman of the National Dairy Development Board of India.

Author : Nirmala Kurien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : 9391234909

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The Utterly Butterly Milkman by Nirmala Kurien Pdf

Author : Christer Petley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780198791638

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White Fury by Christer Petley Pdf

La 4e de la jaquette indique : "The story of the struggle over slavery in the British empire - as told through the rich, expressive, and frequently shocking letters of one of the wealthiest British slaveholders ever to have lived."

Author : Benjamin Robert Siegel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108425964

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Hungry Nation by Benjamin Robert Siegel Pdf

Independent India's struggle to overcome famine, hunger, and malnutrition, as told through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens alike.

Author : Pratyusha Basu,Bruce Scholten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317850274

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Technological and Social Dimensions of the Green Revolution by Pratyusha Basu,Bruce Scholten Pdf

Rising concerns about agricultural productivity and food security in rapidly changing economic and environmental contexts have led to renewed interest in agricultural development. But the extent to which new policies and programs will enable socially just and environmentally sustainable futures for rural communities remains a matter of intense debate. This book contributes to such debates by critically examining the intersection of agricultural histories, heterogeneous social contexts and new technological developments in rural communities across the Global South. It shows how experiences of the previous Green Revolution can inform new agricultural programs and enable equitable and participatory development in rural places. Through close engagement with rural communities, this book ensures that rural voices become part of the debate on agricultural development and suggests pathways for building on the gains of the Green Revolution without necessarily repeating its problematic social, technological and environmental aspects. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.

Author : M. L. Ahuja
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : India
ISBN : 8178357291

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Great Administrators of India by M. L. Ahuja Pdf

In democracy, the responsibility for delivering good government rests on the performance of the executive, yet the bureaucracy plays a significant part in its success. Though the bureaucracy is required to function under political direction, but their knowledge and erudition certainly facilitate success in administrators of India, contains the profiles of ten successfully administrators who made a niche in different fields of their endeavours. They are not biographical essays in the conventional sense. The emphasis is on highlighting the contributions of personalities chosen. Of these: " V.P. Menon successfully brought the unification of 565 princely states in the Union of India. " K.M. Panikkar had been an eminent writer in Malayalam and English, a successful administrator, diplomat and educationist. " C.D. Deshmukh, the first Indian to be appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India by the British Raj, was an economist. " P.N. Haksar was one of the key policy makers who contributed greatly in the successful prime ministership of Indira Gandhi. " Nagendra Singh was a many-splendoured personality a prince, who was a jurist, civil servant, author, international diplomat, and defender of human rights. " I.G. Patel had been an economist, technocrat, civil servant, university administrator, and fourteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. " M.S. Swaminathan is the Father of Green Revolutions in Asia. " GVG Krishnamurthy, the former Election Commissioner of India, is a unique, enigmatic and versatile successful administrator. " Verghese Kurien is known as Milkman of India who has ushered in White Revolution. " E. Sreedharan is known for meticulous planning and execution of Delhi Metro system.

Author : Carlo Rovelli
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780593328903

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Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli Pdf

Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian “Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is the place where science comes to life.” ―Neil Gaiman “One of the warmest, most elegant and most lucid interpreters to the laity of the dazzling enigmas of his discipline...[a] momentous book” ―John Banville, The Wall Street Journal A startling new look at quantum theory, from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and Anaximander. One of the world's most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, he examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving. Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves, distant objects that seem to be magically connected, cats that appear both dead and alive), quantum physics has led to countless discoveries and technological advancements. Today our understanding of the world is based on this theory, yet it is still profoundly mysterious. As scientists and philosophers continue to fiercely debate the meaning of the theory, Rovelli argues that its most unsettling contradictions can be explained by seeing the world as fundamentally made of relationships rather than substances. We and everything around us exist only in our interactions with one another. This bold idea suggests new directions for thinking about the structure of reality and even the nature of consciousness. Rovelli makes learning about quantum mechanics an almost psychedelic experience. Shifting our perspective once again, he takes us on a riveting journey through the universe so we can better comprehend our place in it.

Author : Francine R. Frankel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400869022

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India's Green Revolution by Francine R. Frankel Pdf

The success of the agricultural policy adopted in 1965 has given India the hope of escaping from its circle of poverty. At the same time the increased rate of economic development seems to have exacerbated social tensions and accentuated disparities that may eventually undermine the foundations of rural political stability. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Craig Jeffrey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780198769347

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Modern India by Craig Jeffrey Pdf

India has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influence. Yet many people know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people benefiting from the economic boom? In what ways is education transforming society? And how is India's culture industry responding to technological change? In this "Very Short Introduction", Craig Jeffrey provides a compelling account of the recent history of India, investigating the contradictions that are plaguing modern India and the manner in which people, especially young people, are actively remaking the country in the twenty first century. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Francis G. Hutchins
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008808118

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India's Revolution; Gandhi and the Quit India Movement by Francis G. Hutchins Pdf

Gandhi's Quit India Movement of 1942 was the climax of a nationalist revolutionary movement which sought independence on India's own terms. Indian independence was attained through revolution, not through a benevolent grant from the British imperial regime. "The British left India because Indians had made it impossible for them to stay." The bases for Francis Hutchins' thesis are new facts from hitherto unused sources: interviews with surviving participants in the movement, private papers from the Gandhi Memorial Museum and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, documents in the National Archives of India. In particular, he has studied the secret records of the British government, recently made available, which reveal for the first time the extent of the revolutionary movement and Britain's plans for dealing with it. Of the British records Hutchins says, "No other regime has left such careful documentation of its strategies or compiled such extensive records revealing the way in which it was overthrown." Even though England had always proclaimed its hope that India would one day become independent, the tacit assumption was that this was a remote eventuality. Only after Gandhi's Quit India Movement did Britain's political parties resign themselves to the necessity to leave quickly, whether or not they believed India was "ready." Obscured by censorship in India and by preoccupation with World War II, the significance of Gandhi's revolutionary technique was not appreciated at the time. Hutchins' impressive analysis uses the Indian case to develop a general theory of the revolutionary nature of colonial nationalism.

Author : Venkatesh Narayanamurti,Jeffrey Y. Tsao
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780674251854

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The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions by Venkatesh Narayanamurti,Jeffrey Y. Tsao Pdf

Research powers innovation and technoscientific advance, but it is due for a rethink, one consistent with its deeply holistic nature, requiring deeply human nurturing. Research is a deeply human endeavor that must be nurtured to achieve its full potential. As with tending a garden, care must be taken to organize, plant, feed, and weedÑand the manner in which this nurturing is done must be consistent with the nature of what is being nurtured. In The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions, Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Jeffrey Tsao propose a new and holistic system, a rethinking of the nature and nurturing of research. They share lessons from their vast research experience in the physical sciences and engineering, as well as from perspectives drawn from the history and philosophy of science and technology, research policy and management, and the evolutionary biological, complexity, physical, and economic sciences. Narayanamurti and Tsao argue that research is a recursive, reciprocal process at many levels: between science and technology; between questions and answer finding; and between the consolidation and challenging of conventional wisdom. These fundamental aspects of the nature of research should be reflected in how it is nurtured. To that end, Narayanamurti and Tsao propose aligning organization, funding, and governance with research; embracing a culture of holistic technoscientific exploration; and instructing people with care and accountability.

Author : Gurcharan Das
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385720748

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India Unbound by Gurcharan Das Pdf

India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium. Das shows how India’s policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the major players from Nehru through today. As the former CEO of Proctor & Gamble India, Das offers a unique insider’s perspective and he deftly interweaves memoir with history, creating a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written. Impassioned, erudite, and eminently readable, India Unbound is a must for anyone interested in the global economy and its future.