Popularisation of Agricultural Science in Travancore: Context and Ideas

Urmila Unnikrishnan
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Urmila Unnikrishnan: PhD student, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; urmila.unnikrishnan@gmail.com

Journal, 2021, vol. 11, issue 2, 48-71

Abstract: This paper draws attention to the popular science writings on agriculture published in Malayalam periodicals from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. The context of the study is the history of science popularisation and the institutionalisation of scientific agriculture in Travancore. It highlights the role of the princely state of Travancore and the Malayalam-speaking intelligentsia in science popularisation. The literature shows that the dissemination of popular writings on agricultural science was intended to achieve the modernisation of agriculture, and was informed by concepts of regional and national development. The paper adds to the scholarship on the history of science popularisation in India by drawing attention to the history of science popularisation in the history of princely states.

Keywords: Popularisation of agricultural science; agricultural modernisation in Travancore; princely states; vernacular popular science; science popularisation in Malayalam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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