Producing India

Author : Manu Goswami
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226305103

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When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present moment. Elegantly conceived and judiciously argued, Producing India will be invaluable to students of history, political economy, geography, and Asian studies.

Author : Manu Goswami
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226305082

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Producing India by Manu Goswami Pdf

When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present moment. Elegantly conceived and judiciously argued, Producing India will be invaluable to students of history, political economy, geography, and Asian studies.

Author : Paul R. Brass
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295800608

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The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India by Paul R. Brass Pdf

Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. Paul R. Brass, one of the world’s preeminent experts on South Asia, has tracked more than half a century’s riots in the north Indian city of Aligarh. This book is the culmination of a lifetime’s thinking about the dynamics of institutionalized intergroup violence in northern India, covering the last three decades of British rule as well as the entire post-Independence history of Aligarh. Brass exposes the mechanisms by which endemic communal violence is deliberately provoked and sustained. He convincingly implicates the police, criminal elements, members of Aligarh’s business community, and many of its leading political actors in the continuous effort to “produce” communal violence. Much like a theatrical production, specific roles are played, with phases for rehearsal, staging, and interpretation. In this way, riots become key historical markers in the struggle for political, economic, and social dominance of one community over another. In the course of demonstrating how riots have been produced in Aligarh, Brass offers a compelling argument for abandoning or refining a number of widely held views about the supposed causes of communal violence, not just in India but throughout the rest of the world. An important addition to the literature on Indian and South Asian politics, this book is also an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the interplay of nationalism, ethnicity, religion, and collective violence, wherever it occurs.

Author : S. S. Sangwan
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8170992435

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Production and Marketing of Potato in India by S. S. Sangwan Pdf

Author : I. Sengupta,D. Ali
Publisher : Springer
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230119000

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Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India by I. Sengupta,D. Ali Pdf

This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process.

Author : Ted Svensson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135022143

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Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan by Ted Svensson Pdf

This work seeks to examine the event and concurrent transition that the inauguration of India and Pakistan as ‘postcolonial’ states in August 1947 constituted and effectuated. Analysing India and Pakistan together in a parallel and mutually dependant reading, and utilizing primary data and archival materials, Svensson offers new insights into the current literature, seeking to conceptualise independence through partition and decolonisation in terms of novelty and as a ‘restarting of time’. Through his analysis, Svensson demonstrates the constitutive and inexorable entwinement of contingency and restoration, of openness and closure, in the establishment of the postcolonial state. It is maintained that those involved in instituting the new state in a moment devoid of fixity and foundation ‘anchor’ it in preceding beginnings. The work concludes with the proposition that the novelty should not only be regarded as contained in the moment of transition. It should also be seen as contained in the pledge, in the promise and the gesturing towards a future community. Distinct from most other studies on the partition and independence the book assumes the constitutive moment as the focal point, offering a new approach to the study of partition in British India, decolonisation and the institutional of the postcolonial state. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, South Asian studies and political and postcolonial theory.

Author : Ted Svensson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135022150

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Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan by Ted Svensson Pdf

This work seeks to examine the event and concurrent transition that the inauguration of India and Pakistan as ‘postcolonial’ states in August 1947 constituted and effectuated. Analysing India and Pakistan together in a parallel and mutually dependant reading, and utilizing primary data and archival materials, Svensson offers new insights into the current literature, seeking to conceptualise independence through partition and decolonisation in terms of novelty and as a ‘restarting of time’. Through his analysis, Svensson demonstrates the constitutive and inexorable entwinement of contingency and restoration, of openness and closure, in the establishment of the postcolonial state. It is maintained that those involved in instituting the new state in a moment devoid of fixity and foundation ‘anchor’ it in preceding beginnings. The work concludes with the proposition that the novelty should not only be regarded as contained in the moment of transition. It should also be seen as contained in the pledge, in the promise and the gesturing towards a future community. Distinct from most other studies on the partition and independence the book assumes the constitutive moment as the focal point, offering a new approach to the study of partition in British India, decolonisation and the institutional of the postcolonial state. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, South Asian studies and political and postcolonial theory.

Author : J. S. Sarma,Vasant P. Gandhi
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0896290840

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Production and Consumption of Foodgrains in India by J. S. Sarma,Vasant P. Gandhi Pdf

Trends and changes in foodgrain production; Input use and production behavior; Trends and changes in per capita consumption of foodgrains; Scenarios for the year 2000.

Author : Koichi Fujita,Tsukasa Mizushima
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000177435

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Sustainable Development in India by Koichi Fujita,Tsukasa Mizushima Pdf

This book explores and interrogates the food–water–energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India’s economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, including the consequences of electricity tariff reforms and related policies on irrigated agriculture. Part 1 focuses on the historical development of agriculture and social change in India, with special reference to the mode of responses and adaptations in social systems against the inherent low and erratic rainfall and resulting water stress in India during the pre-colonial period. Additionally, it investigates how colonial development destroyed social systems and discusses future development prospects. Part 2 discusses contemporary issues of agriculture and social change in India. A comprehensive examination of various important issues related to South Asian agricultural development in the past and in the present, this book will be a valuable reference for researchers of Asian development, sustainable development, environmental policy, South Asian Studies and Development Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Arthur B. Mackie,Donald Chrisler,Raymond Peter Christensen,William E. Hendrix
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112070996035

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Accelerating India's Food Grain Production, 1967-68 to 1970-71 by Arthur B. Mackie,Donald Chrisler,Raymond Peter Christensen,William E. Hendrix Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Tobacco use
ISBN : SRLF:AA0007358070

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Tobacco Production and Consumption in India and Burma by United States. Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations Pdf

Author : J. Barnard Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Tobacco industry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210344284

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Tobacco Production and Consumption in India and Burma by J. Barnard Gibbs Pdf

Author : Rolf Bauer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004385184

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The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India by Rolf Bauer Pdf

In The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India, Rolf Bauer deals with the peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. He shows how the peasants were forced to cultivate this unremunerative crop through a collaboration of the state and the Indian elite.

Author : Vijay Paul Sharma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132237174

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Oilseed Production in India by Vijay Paul Sharma Pdf

This book analyses the performance and potential of India’s oilseed sector, identifies the major constraints facing the industry and suggests options for increasing the country’s oilseed production and productivity, taking into account the changing policy environment, increasing demand, slow growth in domestic production and rising imports. India as the world’s largest producer of oilseeds, accounts for about 7-8 per cent of global vegetable oil production. However, the growth in domestic production has not kept pace with the growth in demand. Low yields and high production and market risks due to lack of irrigation facilities and effective risk management have been responsible for widening the demand-supply gap over the years, and the country now imports more than half of its oilseed for domestic consumption. The Technology Mission on Oilseeds (TMO), launched in the mid-1980s, helped achieve self-sufficiency in edible oil production through the spread of technology and the provision of market support. However, increasing demand for edible oils necessitated imports in large quantities, leading to a substantial drain on foreign exchange. Given the competing demands on agricultural land from various crops and enterprises, the production of oilseeds can be increased only if productivity is improved significantly and farmers receive remunerative prices and have assured market access. However, farmers face various constraints in oilseed production; several biotic, abiotic, technological, institutional and socio-economic constraints inhibit exploitation of the full yield potential of crops, which need to be addressed. The book explores these issues using data collected from about 2,000 oilseed growers: 490 soybean farmers, 316 rapeseed-mustard growers, 470 groundnut farmers, 250 sesamum farmers and 470 sunflower growers from selected Indian states. It would be of immense use for scholars and policy makers alike who are working in this field.

Author : John B. Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : UIUC:30112018973575

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New Technology in India's Agriculture and Outlook for Grain Production by John B. Parker Pdf