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  • Introduction

  • Prakash Kumar, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    A History of India's Green Revolution
    Published online:
    07 August 2025
    Print publication:
    21 August 2025, pp 1-26

  • Summary

    The current understandings of the green revolution are captive to short-term analyses that focus on the introduction of the new technology of high yielding variety seeds (HYVs) under a new agricultural strategy in 1964-66. Such a perspective cannot account for the fact hiding in plain sight that HYVs were progressively introduced into other areas on the subcontinent where they did not succeed. This book instead embeds the green revolution into a history of agrarian modernization patterns in three sub-regions of north India. It considers the colonial past, the post-independence rebuilding programs, and the wider influence of global forces of modernization to account for the birth of the green revolution.