Kusum Nair
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English 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.[4] Her early work dealt with Indian politics, and the Bombay Naval Mutiny of 1946. A Congress Socialist Party member, she was involved in the mutiny's planning.[5]
In 1936 at an age of 16, Kusum Nair was married to Pran Nath Nayyar who was serving in the Indian Navy. In 1941 she graduated from University of Nagpur with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. He husband Pran Nath Nayyar had later taken part in the Naval Mutiny of 1946[6]
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 Defence 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.
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