The Hindi-Speaking Intelligentsia and Agricultural Modernisation in the Colonial Period

Sandipan Baksi
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Sandipan Baksi: Research Scholar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, sandipanbaksi@gmail.com

Journal, 2016, vol. 6, issue 2, 98-122

Abstract: This paper is a study of the perceptions of the emerging Hindi-speaking intelligentsia about agricultural modernisation in the British colonial period. It discusses the meaning of agrarian change for this emerging class, especially with respect to the interrelationship between the techniques and methods of agricultural production on the one hand, and the socio-economic aspects of agricultural production on the other. It is based on a survey of writings that appeared in some important literary and popular science Hindi periodicals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The study finds that there was a strong perception among Hindi publicists of the colonial period of the utility of science and technology in agriculture. While acknowledging the importance of science, there was an understanding among them that the expansion of production and productivity in agriculture was also dependent on the prevailing socio-economic context.

Keywords: history of agriculture; history of science; vernacular periodicals; Hindi periodicals; science in the vernacular; science and colonialism; agriculture and colonialism; popularisation of science; scientific agriculture. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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