Kusum Nair
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, Uttar Pradesh.[4] Her early work dealt with Indian politics, and the 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[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ (PDF), p. 4.
- ^ Hewitt's of White Oak and Collateral Families
- ^ "Pakistani Women In A Changing Society". Archived from the original on 26 August 2006. Retrieved 10 November 2007.
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Categories:
- 1919 births
- 1993 deaths
- Agricultural writers
- Indian political journalists
- Indian women journalists
- 20th-century Indian women writers
- 20th-century Indian journalists
- Journalists from Uttar Pradesh
- People from Etah district
- Women writers from Uttar Pradesh