Book contents
- A History of India’s Green Revolution
- Reviews
- A History of India’s Green Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Colonial Technocracy
- 2 Development through People’s Participation
- 3 Making Tarai the Granary of the Province
- 4 A Decolonizing Perspective and Technocracy in Uttar Pradesh
- 5 Realization of Modernization Dreams?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Development through People’s Participation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2025
Book contents
- A History of India’s Green Revolution
- Reviews
- A History of India’s Green Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Colonial Technocracy
- 2 Development through People’s Participation
- 3 Making Tarai the Granary of the Province
- 4 A Decolonizing Perspective and Technocracy in Uttar Pradesh
- 5 Realization of Modernization Dreams?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Development scholars have honed their theories on notions of state-led programs and projects in which the subjects of development are mere recipients of state bequest under elitist planning and implementation. In contrast, the nationwide community development project launched in India in 1952 under the umbrella of the Indo-US treaty of technological cooperation aspired to build participation in planning and development from below. This bureaucracy-led program envisioned instilling a “will to improve” among communities. The notion of “community” had a wide currency in India at a time when refugees from Pakistan were streaming into the nation after partition and officials were engaged in the conjoined task of organizing refugees and organizing rural populace into productive communities. The program was laced with technocratic principles of communitarian sociology. While the program met the metrics of development in the initial pilots, the nationwide spread of community blocks seemed to languish, calling into question the program’s principles and methods.
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- A History of India's Green RevolutionReign of Technocracy, pp. 60 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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