Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850-1980): Tracing the Pre-History of Green and White Revolutions
Upadhyaya, Himanshu
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-07-22
- 售價: $4,730
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- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 189
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 9819715598
- ISBN-13: 9789819715596
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This book traces the contours of the symbiotic relationship between crop cultivation and cattle rearing in India by reading against the grain of several official accounts from the late colonial period to the 1980s. It also skillfully unpacks the multiple cultural expressions that revolve around cattle in India and the wider subcontinent to show how this domestic animal has greatly impacted political discourses in South Asia from colonial times, into the postcolonial period. The author begins by demonstrating the dependence between the nomadic cattle breeder and the settled cultivator, at the nexus of land-livestock-agriculture, as indicated in the writings of Sir Albert Howard, who espoused some of the most sophisticated ideas on integration, holism, and mixed farming in an era when agricultural research was marked by increasing specialisation and compartmentalisation. The book springboards with the views of colonial experts who worked at imperial science institutions but passionately voiced dissenting opinions due to their emotional investment in the lives of Indian peasants, of whom Howard was a leading light. The book presents Howard and his contemporaries' writings to then engage contemporary debates surrounding organic agriculture and climate change, tracing the path out of the treadmill of industrial agriculture and factory farming. In doing so, the book shows how, historically, animal rearing has been critically linked to livelihood strategies in the Indian subcontinent. At once a dispassionate reflection on the role played by cattle and water buffaloes in not just supporting farm operations in the agro-pastoral landscape, but also in contributing to millions of livelihoods in sustainable ways while fulfilling the animal protein in the Indian diet, the book presents contemporary lessons on development perspectives relating to sustainable and holistic agriculture. A rich and sweeping treatment of this aspect of environmental history in India that tackles the transformations prompted by the arrival of veterinary medicine, veterinary education and notions of scientific livestock management, the book is a rare read for historians, environmentalists, agriculturalists, development practitioners, and animal studies scholars with a particular interest in South Asia.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書從晚期殖民時期到1980年代，逆向閱讀多個官方記錄，追溯了印度的農作物種植和牛飼養之間的共生關係。它巧妙地解析了圍繞印度和更廣泛的次大陸地區的牛的多重文化表達，展示了這種家畜如何從殖民時期到後殖民時期對南亞政治話語產生了巨大影響。作者首先展示了遊牧牛飼養者和定居耕作者之間的依賴關係，這種關係存在於土地-家畜-農業的交匯處，正如阿爾伯特·霍華德爵士的著作所示。在當時，農業研究越來越專業化和分隔化，而霍華德提出了一些最複雜的整合、整體論和混合耕作觀念。本書以殖民時期專家的觀點為起點，這些專家在帝國科學機構工作，但由於對印度農民生活的情感投入，他們熱情地表達了異議意見。本書介紹了霍華德及其同時代人的著作，並參與當代圍繞有機農業和氣候變化的辯論，追溯了走出工業農業和工廠飼養的困境的道路。在此過程中，本書展示了在印度次大陸，動物飼養與生計策略的關鍵聯繫。本書不僅是對農牧景觀中牛和水牛在支持農業運營方面的冷靜反思，還是對以可持續方式滿足印度飲食中的動物蛋白需求並以可持續和整體農業為核心的發展觀點的當代教訓。這本書是印度環境史這一方面的豐富而全面的論述，涉及到獸醫學、獸醫教育和科學家畜管理觀念帶來的變革，對於歷史學家、環境學家、農業學家、發展從業人員和對南亞特別感興趣的動物研究學者來說，這是一本難得的讀物。
作者簡介
Dr Himanshu Upadhyaya teaches Development Studies at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. With a deep interest in environmental history, he completed his doctoral research on the late colonial policies on Livestock and Agricultural Development in Western India, on which this book is based. His research papers have been published in academic journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Land and Rural Studies, and International Development Practice. His research papers have also appeared in edited volumes, focused on Agrarian History of Colonial India (Tilling the Land edited by Deepak Kumar and Bipasha Raha, Routledge), Development Studies (Intractable Conflicts in India (edited by Savyasachi, Routledge). He holds a MA in English Literature from North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat, India, and a MA in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He also wrote a research dissertation on the Syntax of Negation in two varieties of Gujarati Language for his M.Phil. degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Hyderabad, India. Outside of his academic work, he was actively involved with several environmental justice movements from 2000-2010, such as Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the River Narmada Movement) and communities fighting displacement due to large mining projects and large dams. He has spent time working with several civil society and academic organisations such as the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People; Hydro Monitor India at Delhi Forum; Intercultural Resources (with prominent Post-Development scholar Smitu Kothari); the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (where he authored a research study titled Performance and Development Effectiveness of Sardar Sarovar Dam Project in 2008) and Environics Trust, New Delhi. A collection of his popular articles on the Narmada Dam were published in 2010 under the title 'Big Dam, Bigger Questions' by the Delhi Forum. He was also part of an oral history project culminating in the publication of testimonies by environmental activists titled 'Plural Narratives from the Narmada Valley (2010).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Dr. Himanshu Upadhyaya在印度班加羅爾的Azim Premji大學教授發展研究。他對環境歷史有濃厚的興趣，並完成了關於晚期殖民地時期西印度牲畜和農業發展政策的博士研究，本書就是基於此研究。他的研究論文已發表在《經濟與政治週刊》、《土地與鄉村研究期刊》和《國際發展實踐》等學術期刊上。他的研究論文也出現在編輯的專著中，專注於殖民地印度的農業史（《耕地》由Deepak Kumar和Bipasha Raha編輯，Routledge）、發展研究（《印度的棘手衝突》由Savyasachi編輯，Routledge）。他擁有印度古吉拉特邦帕坦北古吉拉特大學的英國文學碩士學位，以及印度新德里Jawaharlal Nehru大學的語言學碩士學位。他還在印度海得拉巴大學應用語言學系獲得碩士學位，並撰寫了關於古吉拉特語兩種變體的否定句句法的研究論文。在學術工作之外，他積極參與了2000年至2010年間的多個環境正義運動，如納爾馬達巴查奧安達蘭（拯救納爾馬達河運動）以及反對大型礦業項目和大壩導致的社區遷移。他曾在南亞大壩、河流和人民網絡、德里論壇的Hydro Monitor India、Intercultural Resources（與著名後發展學者Smitu Kothari合作）、塔塔社會科學研究所（他在2008年撰寫了一份名為《薩達爾薩羅瓦爾大壩項目的表現和發展效益》的研究報告）和新德里的Environics Trust等多個民間社會和學術組織工作。他在2010年出版了一本名為《大壩，更大的問題》的關於納爾馬達大壩的文章集，並參與了一個口述歷史項目，最終出版了環境活動家的證詞集《納爾馬達山谷的多元敘事》（2010年）。
